Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-12-Speech-1-150"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by clarifying what we are talking about, because, on the basis of a speech by Commissioner McCreevy, it seems to me that his ideas do not coincide with those of Mr Kovács, within the Commission itself, and of course do not coincide with those of this Parliament, not even with regard to the subject of the discussion.
What we are talking about now is establishing common rules for defining the tax base. We are not talking about harmonising or approximating tax rates, which will remain in the hands of the Member States.
Having clarified that, why am I in favour of consolidating the tax base and why do I approve and applaud the report by Mr Bersani? Firstly, because I believe in an internal market that works. And in order for an internal market to work, companies that operate throughout the market, multinational companies, cannot be subject to twenty-five different rules when it comes to defining what is taxable income and what is deductible spending.
Secondly, because I am in favour of the European citizen, and the European citizen who wishes to invest his or her savings in a company will be able to judge the assets of companies with more clarity if they are all defined according to the same rules.
Thirdly, because I do not like tax fraud, and I believe that by consolidating the tax base we will be able to eliminate transfer pricing and the location of company operations in those countries that are most permissive in terms of not taking account of an item of spending or being able to deduct an operation.
Finally, because if we say here that we advocate fiscal competition amongst the Member States, competition will be cleaner, more transparent and, if I may say so, more brutal, if the different States apply different rates — the rates they want to apply — to homogenous realities. Because that will be the only way to calculate it
I would like to end with a warning, Mr President: if we do not do it, as we have done in the case of the code of conduct, the Court of Justice will do it, to the shame of this Parliament."@en1
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