Traduction de «équivalence des charges fiscales » (Français → Anglais) :

Corporate tax avoidance deprives public budgets of billions of euros a year[1], creates a heavier tax burden for citizens and causes competitive distortions for businesses that pay their share.

15. Recalls that SMEs can be expected to play an important role in the circular economy, providing sustainable, yet labour-intensive services such as repair, refurbishing and recycling; considers that a tax shift from labour to natural resource use is a prerequisite for the long-term success of SMEs; notes that the Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Parliament and the Eurogroup broadly support the principle of a tax shift from labour to natural resource use and consumption; requests that the Commission assess the impact of a tax s ...[+++]hift from labour to natural resource use;

5. Stresses that massive tax evasion and tax avoidance by larger companies has a devastating effect on the taxpaying discipline of smaller companies and even individuals, since it makes tax evasion and tax avoidance appear to be the accepted norm, and it is, inter alia, due to this tax evasion that an additional tax burden on individuals and companies is introduced; stresses that tax avoidance and tax evasion are facilitated by complex, non-transparent taxation systems and that opaque tax legislation offers firms and individuals, by a flexible interpretation of tax laws, opportunities to reduce their own tax burden at the expense of oth ...[+++]ers;

6. Welcomes the proposal to reduce the tax wedge on labour in a budgetary-neutral way; recalls that the average tax wedge between what it costs for an employer to hire a worker and the worker’s real pay is often above 40 % in the EU; believes that shifting the tax burden may enable companies benefiting from these exemptions/reductions to create new jobs or to increase wages; stresses the substantial employment effects of shifting tax from labour to capital and consumption;

6. Welcomes the proposal to reduce the tax wedge on labour in a budgetary-neutral way; recalls that the average tax wedge between what it costs for an employer to hire a worker and the worker's real pay is often above 40 % in the EU; believes that shifting the tax burden may enable companies benefiting from these exemptions/reductions to create new jobs or to increase wages;

8. Calls on the Member States to continue their efforts to use, as a matter of priority, the room for manoeuvre released by the reform of public finances to reduce labour costs and shift the tax burden from labour to mobile factors; calls therefore for a European tax pact that puts an end to the ruinous tax race in the EU, eases the burden of taxation and other non-wage labour costs and brings about an ecological tax reform;