Translation of "citoyens pour la justice fiscale " (French → English) :

Fair Taxation: Commission welcomes agreement reached by Member States on new rules to tackle tax avoidance // Brussels, 21 June 2016

Mark Herkenrath, Programme Officer International Finance Tax Policy and designated Director of Alliance Sud, Member of Global Alliance for Tax Justice

6. Welcomes the publication of a new tax policy package and asks the Commission to put forward an ambitious package of legislative proposals seeking to ensure a fair taxation system, based on the principle that taxes are to be paid in the country where profits are generated, avoiding internal market distortion and unfair competition; considers that such an agenda should include legislative proposals for compulsory country-by-country reporting by multinational companies, a European Tax Identification Number (TIN), the definition of tax havens and the establishment of an EU blacklist with the aim of eradicating them, and proposals needed to move towards legislative agreement on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base; considers that the EU ...[+++]’s development and cooperation agenda should also be adapted and conditionality upgraded to effectively fight tax evasion and tax avoidance; calls on the Commission to follow up the recommendations made by Parliament in its legislative initiative report and the TAXE committee’s own-initiative report to ensure tax justice;

J. whereas the ineffectiveness of the Stability and Growth Pact in its present form and the disparities in competitiveness between Member States prompted the current debate on European economic governance, key components of which should be measures to strengthen the Stability and Growth Pact, mainly its preventive provisions, launch without any further delay unavoidable structural reforms and coordinate taxation policies and the fight against tax avoidance, fraud and evasion in order to safeguard tax justice, while gradually shifting the tax bu ...[+++]rden from labour towards capital and activities with strong negative externalities,

– (IT) Mr President, Commissioner Vitorino, over the last five years the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice has constituted a large part of the work of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, and we can certainly say that there have been major reforms and tangible progress towards granting increasingly extensive rights to citizens.

The Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs had appointed Ana Palacio Vallelersundi rapporteur at its meeting of September 2001. The committee appointed Giacomo Santini rapporteur at its meeting of 11 September 2002.