Übersetzung für "Harmful tax competition " (Englisch → Französisch) :

The efforts to curb harmful tax competition through the Code of Conduct for business taxation and the proposals on the taxation of income from savings will allow Member States to consolidate their tax revenue raising capacities, thus offering scope for reducing the high average tax burden on labour.

80. Considers that, in view of studies estimating the annual value of tax fraud and tax avoidance to up to EUR one trillion (1 000 000 000 000), the Member States must ultimately tackle and restrict this practice; takes the view that reducing tax fraud and tax avoidance is fundamental to progress on the consolidation of state budgets; welcomes the recent adoption by the finance ministers of the G20 of new rules drawn up by the OECD on base erosion and profit shifting, which will improve transparency, close loopholes and restrict the use of tax havens; takes the view that, given its degree of integration, the EU must go further than the proposals presented in the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project in terms of coordinat ...[+++]ion and convergence aimed at avoiding all forms of harmful tax competition within the internal market; stresses, however, that the OECD approach is still based on soft law, and that its action must be complemented by a proper legislative framework at EU level if it is to address the needs of the single market, e.g. in the form of an anti-BEPS directive going beyond the OECD BEPS initiative in areas that are not sufficiently covered; calls for an assessment of the economic, financial and competition-related impact of tax avoidance and tax fraud;

J. whereas, in a completed internal market, no artificial distortion should affect investment decisions and business location; whereas, however, globalisation, digitalisation and free movement of capital create the conditions for more intense tax competition between Member States, and with third countries, in order to attract investment and businesses; whereas it is important to keep and attract companies in Europe, but this should not take the form of potentially harmful tax schemes which are aimed at fostering investment and attracting additional economic activity in the first place, reacting to similar measures launched in neighbouring countries, or are intended to correct what are regarded as pre-existing imbalances between the Membe ...[+++]r States in terms of relative wealth, size or peripheral location; whereas, incidentally, in some jurisdictions there seems to be a correlation between attractive corporate tax systems and a high level of national wealth; whereas the optimal design for tax systems depends on numerous factors and therefore differs from one country to another; whereas harmful tax competition between Member States limits the potential of the single market;

J. whereas, in a completed internal market, no artificial distortion should affect investment decisions and business location; whereas, however, globalisation, digitalisation and free movement of capital create the conditions for more intense tax competition between Member States, and with third countries, in order to attract investment and businesses; whereas it is important to keep and attract companies in Europe, but this should not take the form of potentially harmful tax schemes which are aimed at fostering investment and attracting additional economic activity in the first place, reacting to similar measures launched in neighbouring countries, or are intended to correct what are regarded as pre-existing imbalances between the Member ...[+++] States in terms of relative wealth, size or peripheral location; whereas, incidentally, in some jurisdictions there seems to be a correlation between attractive corporate tax systems and a high level of national wealth; whereas the optimal design for tax systems depends on numerous factors and therefore differs from one country to another; whereas harmful tax competition between Member States limits the potential of the single market;

5. Stresses that the Treaty, in line with the subsidiarity principle, allows Member States to determine their own corporate tax rates and tax base until stronger tax convergence measures have been agreed in line with the Treaty; stresses also, however, that the over-complex rules of national tax systems, together with the differences between these systems, create loopholes that are used by MNCs for aggressive tax planning purposes, thus leading to base erosion, profit shifting, a race to the bottom and, ultimately, a suboptimal economic outcome; underlines the fact that this kind of tax avoidance is a negative-sum game for all national budgets taken together, as the increases in tax revenues resulting from harmful practices in one Member ...[+++]State (thanks to derogations, specific deductions or loopholes) do not compensate for the reductions in tax revenues in others; points out that only a more coordinated, joint approach by Member States, which should result in a common framework within which Member States set their tax rates, can prevent further base erosion, harmful tax competition and a tax rate race to the bottom;

In this House, we love to talk about ‘harmful tax competition’, so let us get one thing straight right away: there is no such thing as harmful tax competition; all tax competition is good.