Translation of "Tax Measures Supplementary Information " (English → French) :

Tax Measures: Supplementary Information [ Tax Measures ]

Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan Income Tax Return [ Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan Information Return and Income Tax Return ]

Supplementary Information relating Tax Reform Measures

In the area of policy mixes, a specific peer-review process was developed and applied to three countries (Sweden, Spain and Romania[5]) with the aim to encourage the sharing of information about policy-related issues and to generate both country-specific and generic lessons for the formulation and implementation of effective policy mixes needed to raise RD intensity. In the area of fiscal measures, the work focused on the evaluatio ...[+++]n and design of tax measures for research which led to the development of a practical guide on the evaluation of tax measures.

14. Notes that this uncoordinated tax framework within the EU also suffers from a blatant lack of cooperation between Member States; stresses, in this connection, that Member States do not necessarily take into consideration the impact of their tax measures on other Member States, not only when they design their tax measures but also when they share information on the implementation of such measures, leading to a de facto beggar-thy-neighbour policy in tax matters, which is contrary to the very foundations of the European project; p ...[+++]oints out that an automatic, systematic and efficient exchange of information between Member States would make it possible to take account of the tax treatment of specific income flows or transactions in other Member States; stresses that this also contributes to creating an unacceptable situation in which the profits generated by MNCs in a Member State are often taxed at very low rates or not at all in the EU;

14. Notes that this uncoordinated tax framework within the EU also suffers from a blatant lack of cooperation between Member States; stresses, in this connection, that Member States do not necessarily take into consideration the impact of their tax measures on other Member States, not only when they design their tax measures but also when they share information on the implementation of such measures, leading to a de facto beggar-thy-neighbour policy in tax matters, which is contrary to the very foundations of the European project; p ...[+++]oints out that an automatic, systematic and efficient exchange of information between Member States would make it possible to take account of the tax treatment of specific income flows or transactions in other Member States; stresses that this also contributes to creating an unacceptable situation in which the profits generated by MNCs in a Member State are often taxed at very low rates or not at all in the EU;

154. Calls on the Commission to use all the tools at its disposal to foster a more coordinated approach vis-à-vis developed countries in order to promote greater reciprocity in tax matters, in particular with regard to the exchange of information with the United States of America following the entry into force of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act; calls also on the Commission, against the background of the agreement of 27 May 2015 between the EU and Switzerland on the automatic exchange of financial account information, to monitor carefully, with a view to preserving the single market, the agreed phasing out of some harmful tax pra ...[+++]ctices in Switzerland, in line with BEPS guidelines, and that no new harmful tax measures are introduced in the future; calls on the Commission in its ongoing negotiations with Switzerland to suggest the introduction of controlled foreign companies rules in Swiss law; insists that the Commission must ensure that Switzerland follows the EU approach on taxation and report to Parliament;