Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-025"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, firstly I would like to thank our rapporteur here, for the quality of the work she has done and her efforts to come up with a text that, unfortunately, she does not seem totally satisfied with.
Taxation is clearly an essential complement to the construction of a true internal market, if you want the market to be more than just a free-trade area where any form of tax and social dumping is permitted. The completion of the internal market therefore requires the harmonisation of certain rules on taxation and in the first place calls for the creation of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base. The report put before us today opens the door to this, and I am pleased about this. I note that a number of fellow Members are very actively against this plan, in the name of what they describe as ‘fair’ competition.
Personally I believe that free, undistorted competition – and I am not a frenzied advocate of this type of competition – requires a certain amount of transparency as regards the rules. I am surprised that countries that have benefited from massive contributions from the European Union, in the name of solidarity, are today rejecting this step, which would be an important step forward in terms of solidarity, competition and transparency.
Taxation is also a formidable tool that the EU must use if it is to implement its chosen strategies, because it does not have all that many tools. It can have a positive impact on the cleanest energies or to achieve…"@en1
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