Translation of "compensating tax increase " (English → French) :

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;

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;

B. whereas fiscal fraud jeopardises equity and fiscal justice, since the loss of income to public finance is often compensated by a tax increase hitting the least affluent and most honest taxpayers, who do not have the option or the intention of evading or infringing their tax obligations,

It does not consider the more realistic and economically unacceptable option that lost revenue will be compensated by increases of other taxes, like those on labour, or through higher budget deficits.

The Council notes that the general government surplus reached 6.2% of GDP in 2000, clearly above that projected in the 2000 update, resulting from buoyant tax revenues which more than compensated significant increases in expenditure; decelerating activity and the effects of the tax reform are expected to lower the government surplus in 2001; overall, the projected budgetary surplus over the period of the programme is somewhat higher than in the 2000 update, due to better initial conditions and improved growth prospects from 2003 onw ...[+++]ards.

These would include: policy areas that transcend the capacities of state and local governments such as international trade, macroeconomic policy and much environmental and regulatory policy; social insurance programs like employment compensation where paying equal benefits to all citizens requires that rich and poor share differentiated burdens; and investments that are so costly that they require tax increases which might discour ...[+++]age business from locating or staying in a city or province.