Traduction de «Frappé d'impôt » (Français → Anglais) :

It should be stressed that inflation typically acts as a regressive tax, hitting harder the poorer segments of the population that often rely exclusively on wage (or pension) income and do not possess real assets.

2. The preceding provisions shall not apply to such a drawback of customs duties or charges having equivalent effect nor to such a repayment of indirect taxation including turnover taxes, excise duties and other indirect taxes as is allowed when goods are exported from a Member State to a third country, in so far as such a drawback or repayment does not exceed the amount imposed, directly or indirectly, on the products exported.

I would simply like to tell Mr Schmidt that I was struck by a French Press Agency dispatch, a statement by the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr Persson, which said that if the candidate countries continued to decrease corporate tax as they were doing, it would no longer be possible to agree to finance these candidate countries through the structural funds.

the transfer of pension capital to a foreign pension fund gives rise to special taxation in Belgium

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where the Member State of the transferring company applies a system of taxing world-wide profits, that Member State shall have the right to tax any profits or capital gains of the permanent establishment resulting from the merger, division or transfer of assets, on condition that it gives relief for the tax that, but for the provisions of this Directive, would have been charged on those profits or capital gains in the Member State in which that permanent establishment is situated, in the same way and in the same amount as it would have done if that tax had actually been charged and paid.

The Commission proposal provides for the following: with respect to cultural workers: a system for spreading such workers' incomes over several tax years in applying income taxes; with respect to cultural foundations: appropriate tax exemption for cultural foundations approved by Member States; with respect to patronage: appropriate tax deductions for gifts and bequests to approved cultural bodies or institutions, and tax deductions applicable to patronage where a cash gift or bequest is made to an approved body or person in a Member State other than that in which the patron is resident; with respect to succession duty: the system whereby succession duty can be settled through the surrender of works of art approved by the competent autho ...[+++]rities; with respect to the private architectural heritage: an abatement from the valuee of buildings forming part of that heritage which are subject to "cultural servitudes" arising either from legislation relating to listed buildings or from the fact that they are open to the public, where that value serves as a basis for calculating such taxes as land tax, transfer dduty, annual wealth tax and succession duty; and the deduction from the taxable incomes of the taxpayers concerned of expenditure inccurred in conserving and maintaining those buildings; with respect to cultural investments: a system which does not impose tax disadvantages on cultural investments, and in particular will eliminatee possible tax obstacles to the development of cinema and television co-productions; with respect to widening the audiance: that the Member States will not discourage demand for cultural goods and services by applying high rates of value added tax or of other taxes (1) COM(85) 194 - 2 - The Commission has chosen to couch its proposal in the form of a Resolution so that the Council and the Ministers responsible for Cultural Affairs meeting within the Council can enter into a definite political commitment which at the same time forms the f ...