Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-020"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Taxation and customs policies and the Lisbon Strategy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071023.6.2-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-23-Speech-2-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, our group endorses Mrs Wagenknecht’s views in this matter, even if they are in conflict with the opinions of the majority on the Committee. The European Union will not be the world’s leading knowledge- and technology-based economy in 2010. It is not, however, due to tax systems, which have continually been reformed in ways that favour big companies, that the target under the Lisbon Strategy is unrealisable. Big companies choose transfer pricing and finding of a home for their capital as options enabling them to avoid tax. In this they are aided by the tax havens and offshore financial centres operating in the Member States of the EU, both blots on the EU’s moral landscape. According to the rapporteur, the Commission in its communication does not consider the effects of taxation on income distribution. The system of flat tax which some Member States apply favours those on large incomes, while progressive income tax promotes social equality. The Lisbon Strategy cannot be implemented in a manner which would eat away at the financial basis of the welfare society and which would be grossly unfair."@en1

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