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"Mr President, as some honourable Members have rightly pointed out, this year’s European Semester puts a special emphasis on tax issues. This is fully justified at a time when the road towards a stronger fiscal union would mean, as President Barroso explained this morning, more coordination on taxation policy.
At a time when the consolidation efforts of our Member States go well beyond expenditure, it is important to remember that some ways of increasing revenues are less distortive than others and more pro-growth. Our recommendations in the field of taxation, which go out to all Member States except Finland and Slovenia, are focused largely on five areas which are fundamental to quality tax systems.
What do we recommend? First, we recommend tax shifts from labour taxation towards more growth-friendly taxation. This recommendation was given to eleven Member States. We also consider that some Member States could put more emphasis on green taxation and make their taxation systems greener. Green taxation is much less harmful to growth than taxes on labour.
We also recommend to some Member States that they broaden their tax bases and also reduce their debt barriers in corporate and housing taxation. It is very important to take this into account because in some Member States, these taxation barriers actually caused high corporate and household indebtedness, which was one of the causes of the current crisis.
Finally, we recommend our Member States to improve their tax governance, particularly by intensifying their fight against tax fraud and tax evasion. We are currently preparing the proposals which will be submitted to the European Council at the end of this month regarding how we could better address the issue of tax fraud and tax evasion.
A few more urgent actions are needed at EU level to contribute to the growth and jobs agenda. The first of these is an agreement on the savings directive and a mandate to negotiate with the Swiss. I hope that the European Council at the end of this month will give finance ministers strong guidelines and ambitious timing targets towards an agreement.
Then we have to push for progress on FTT and on ETD, which are both on the agenda of next week’s Council meeting. A lot of technical work has been done and it is now up to the Member States, after this Parliament expressed its support, to accept their responsibility and prove that tax coordination can progress."@en1
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