Traduction de «taux d'imposition allégé » (Français → Anglais) :

23. Underlines the fact that, according to an IMF report, the progressivity of tax systems has been weakened in some Member States in recent years, contributing to increasing inequality; considers that the tax wedge has been much higher for low-wage workers and SMEs with higher effective tax rates; recognises that, while taxation is a Member State competence, progressive tax systems help cushion the worst effects of economic crises, and recognises the importance of reducing taxes for labour and enterprises with a view to increasing demand and creating jobs, while ensuring adequate financing of social protection systems; insists that t ...[+++]ax fraud and tax evasion must be dealt with within and between Member States;

Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' no strings attached corporate income tax cuts should be cancelled immediately and the rate returned to 19.5%. Meanwhile, small businesses should have a tax rate of 9% instead of 11%.

Budget 2009 proposes significant new personal income tax relief that will provide immediate benefits such as: increasing the basic personal amount — the amount all Canadians can earn without paying federal income tax; increasing the upper limit of the two lowest personal income tax brackets so that Canadians can earn more before paying higher taxes; effectively doubling the total tax relief provided by the Working Income Tax Benefit by providing an additional $580 million for the 2009 and subsequent taxation years; providing further tax relief to seniors by increasing the Age Credit amount by $1,000 for 2009 and subsequent taxation ye ...[+++]ars; and providing tax measures to help Canadians purchase and improve their homes.

Whilst preserving an adequate level of social protection, they will in particular review replacement rates and benefit duration; ensure effective benefit management, notably with respect to the link with effective job search, taking into account individual situations; consider the provision of in work benefits, where appropriate; reduce high marginal effective tax rates to eliminate inactivity traps; and reduce the tax burden on the low paid.

The following measures and reforms in Member States are of particular importance with a view to risk capital activities. Germany has reduced its corporate (in stages until 2005) and income tax rates and will eliminate taxation of sales of shares by corporations as from 2002. France has also reduced its corporate and income tax and increased tax benefits granted to reinvesting business angels. Italy has granted favourable tax treatment to closed-end investment funds. Spain has granted tax incentives to registered venture capital investors.

``the House of Commons reject the Budget statement by the Minister of Finance because it denies Canadians debt and tax relief by spending away the federal budget surplus, thus killing opportunities for job creation and economic growth; it leaves Canadians saddled with the highest personal income tax rates in the G-7 countries, resulting in systematic brain drain to jurisdictions with lower taxation levels; it allows interest charges on the national debt to consume one third of every tax dollar collected by the federal government and to exceed spending on health care, education, and old age security combined; it continues the steady de ...[+++]crease in real disposable income for the average Canadian through tax hikes; and it does not keep the government's promise of committing 50 percent of the surplus to new spending and the remaining 50 percent to some combination of debt reduction and tax relief'.