Traduction de «avantages fiscaux ou financiers » (Français → Anglais) :

S. whereas the Troika of institutions (European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) overseeing financial and fiscal adjustment programs in Member States such as Portugal and Greece did not attempt to prevent tax amnesties, tax rulings, tax benefits and tax exemption schemes which were and are unfairly discriminatory, favouring tax dodging corporations and individuals, causing high bleeding of State revenues and increasing the burden on already overtaxed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and citizens;

S. whereas the Troika of institutions (European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) overseeing financial and fiscal adjustment programs in Member States such as Portugal and Greece did not attempt to prevent tax amnesties, tax rulings, tax benefits and tax exemption schemes which were and are unfairly discriminatory, favouring tax dodging corporations and individuals, causing high bleeding of State revenues and increasing the burden on already overtaxed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and citizens;

25. Stresses that a number of Member States have in recent years developed specific corporate tax reduction schemes to attract companies’ mobile intangible assets, such as income resulting from intellectual property; notes the variety in the tax rate reductions and allowances and in the scope of the schemes proposed (innovation boxes, intellectual property boxes, knowledge boxes, patent boxes, etc.); stresses that, in some Member States, taxpayers do not need to produce intellectual property themselves and/or within the country in order to access tax benefits, but merely to acquire it through a company which has its residence within the jurisdiction; stresses, therefore, that any fiscal ...[+++] benefits for R&D must be linked to real expenditures in the said jurisdiction;

7. Calls on the EU and its Member States to enforce the principle that listed or unlisted multinational companies of all countries and sectors, and especially those companies extracting natural resources, must adopt country-by-country reporting (CBCR) as a standard, requiring them to publish, as part of their annual reporting and on a country-by-country basis for each territory in which they operate, the names of all subsidiaries and their respective financial performance, relevant tax information, assets and number of employees, and to ensure that this information is made publicly available, while minimising administrative burdens by ex ...[+++]cluding micro-enterprises; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to amend the Accounting Directive accordingly; recalls that public transparency is a vital step towards fixing the current tax system and building public trust; calls on the OECD to recommend that its proposed CBCR template should be made public by all multinational corporations (MNCs), to ensure that all tax authorities in all countries are able to access thorough information, allowing them to assess transfer pricing risks and determine the most effective way to deploy audit resources; underlines that tax exemptions and advantages granted to foreign investors through bilateral tax treaties provide MNCs with an unfair competitive advantage relative to domestic firms, especially SMEs;

Member States are strongly recommended to link fiscal and financial incentives to compliance with the cost-optimal calculation outcome of the same reference building.

However, your proposal encroaches way into the territory of the product formulation of the occupational retirement provision systems already in existence and, as I see it, you are giving the investment sector a significant competitive advantage over traditional providers. This is because you want to give financial products equal tax treatment but without obliging the financial sector to offer the same security as second pillar institutions, which in return benefit from their own security, that is to say from tax advantages ...[+++].