Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-12-Speech-1-154"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Corporate tax2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051212.18.1-154"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-12-Speech-1-1552
lpv:speaker	lp:Gunnar Hökmark2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there is a misunderstanding in this Chamber if it is believed that it is high tax rates that provide social protection. That is not the case. It is growing investment, new jobs and high and increasing tax income that creates social protection. The European country that has some of the highest corporation tax rates of all, Germany, receives less tax income in relation to the national economy than, for example, Slovakia, which has a low rate of corporation tax but a flat tax rate. It is not the countries with the low tax rates – which obtain new investment and new jobs – that threaten social protection. I believe that, in a Europe in which we have 20 million unemployed, there is reason to be self-critical about the way in which our policy has operated. The fact of the matter is that a tax system that is clear, transparent and predictable creates good basic conditions for investment and new jobs. We see this in countries that have the highest growth rates in the European economy. Having a common tax base and a common method for calculating tax does not mean harmonising taxes. On the contrary, it is good that each country be able to choose the level of corporation tax that best suits that country’s basic conditions. It is good that we should have competition. Transparency is also very much to be desired, so that we see which countries in reality have the high tax rates and which the low ones. It is not the case that some of the new Member States are dumping their tax, as the former German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, said they were. On the contrary, it is those countries that have lots of loopholes and variable and unpredictable tax systems that make things difficult for small enterprises and that prevent new investment. I therefore support this report and congratulate Mr Bersani on a good piece of work."@en1

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