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Mr President, I am pleased to contribute to this debate on company taxation. I read with great interest the report from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and I participated in an extremely interesting hearing which the committee held recently on the subject.
I am particularly pleased that the draft report is so supportive of the current Commission company taxation policy and I should like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Bersani, on this thorough piece of work. The draft report includes an excellent summary of the current situation as regards the taxation of companies in the internal market. Its conclusions are very similar to those of the Commission.
The main objective of a common consolidated corporate tax base is to remove the remaining tax obstacles to the proper functioning of the internal market. These obstacles were catalogued by the Commission in its company tax report in 2001, and the Commission’s response was to promote the introduction in the longer term of a comprehensive solution: a common consolidated corporate tax base.
This project has recently been given additional support during the review of the Lisbon Strategy. To achieve the Lisbon goals – growth, jobs, competitiveness and investment – and to promote administrative simplification and cost reductions, we need appropriate tax policies. In my opinion, the common consolidated corporate tax base will go a long way in providing the EU with the tools it needs to progress.
In October the Commission adopted a communication that outlined the base on which taxation and customs policies could contribute to the Lisbon Strategy. One such measure is to present a Community legislative measure for the common consolidated corporate tax base by 2008. I know that it is an ambitious timetable, but I understand that you are proposing an even more ambitious one for 2007.
I am pleased that Mr Bersani’s report is so supportive of some of the more radical elements of the common consolidated corporate tax base, such as consolidation and the sharing of the consolidated tax base between individual Member States. I am equally pleased that the report supports the Commission’s position that the new tax base should be optional for companies and that the report avoids the trap of becoming involved in tax rates. Our current work is directed at the tax base and does not touch upon the tax rate.
As you know, not all Member States are currently enthusiastic supporters of the common consolidated corporate tax base. Our aim, however, is to have a proposal for all 25 Member States, so your report will be an important additional tool for the Commission to use in future debate on the subject as we attempt to persuade the current dissenters."@en1
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