Traduction de «paradis fiscal non coopératif » (Français → Anglais) :

tax avoidance [ tax haven | tax havens(UNBIS) ]

fiscal paradise | secrecy jurisdiction | tax haven

78. Stresses, however, that the OECD’s work on its former list of uncooperative tax havens was based on a political process which led to arbitrary compromises already when setting the criteria for the lists, such as the requirement to conclude tax agreements with 12 other countries, and resulted in no jurisdiction being listed as an uncooperative tax haven; stresses that its current approach is still based on criteria which refer to tax transparency and the exchange of information, and are not comprehensive enough to address the harmfulness of certain tax practices; notes that, whatever its merits, this limits the relevance of the OECD ...[+++]’s approach to identifying those tax jurisdictions which are pillars of tax avoidance practices and harmful tax competition worldwide; stresses, in particular, that this approach does not refer to any qualitative indicators for an objective assessment of compliance with good governance practices or consider quantitative data such as book profits, incoming and outgoing financial flows and their (dis)connection from the economic reality in a given jurisdiction;

International cooperation to ensure a transparent, cooperative and fair tax environment is therefore needed to increase domestic revenue mobilisation.

Contextual information (turnover, number of employees and nature of activities) will enable an informed analysis and will have to be disclosed for every EU country in which a company is active, as well as for those tax jurisdictions that do not abide by tax good governance standards (so-called tax havens).

29. In particular, takes the view that the setting-up of an in-depth peer review process to monitor and review progress made towards full and effective exchange of information is a good first step forward, but deems nevertheless that this framework must be substantially reinforced in view of its various shortcomings; in this respect, expresses inter alia its concern about the fact that the OECD now concludes that 'no jurisdiction is currently an uncooperative tax haven', and that the OECD allows governments to escape its black list merely by promising to adhere to the information exchange principles; observes, in the latter respect, th ...[+++]at the requirement to conclude an arbitrary number of 12 agreements with other countries is arbitrary and cannot be considered a sufficient condition for removal from the black list;