欧州委員会は、Apple, Amazon, Google, Starbucksのように、海外に企業利益を移転して巨額の税金を脱税するのを防止対策。
Bruselas presentará este año reglas para acabar con el ‘modelo Apple’
Las multinacionales se saltan sus obligaciones fiscales en países desarrollados
Europa va a por el fraude fiscal
Luis Doncel Bruselas 22 MAY 2013 - 21:19 CET
Brussels rules presented this year to end the 'model Apple'
Multinationals are skipped their tax obligations in developed countries
Europe goes for tax fraud
Luis Child of Brussels 22 MAY 2013 - 21:19 CET
They are not only sensitive remote islands that allow companies to escape their tax obligations. Tax fraud-whether skipping the legality or skirting-is installed in the heart of the developed countries. That's where multinationals like Apple, Amazon, Google or Starbucks engineering worth tax to pay ridiculous amounts billionaires despite their income. This is one of the issues discussed on Wednesday the EU leaders.
The conclusion is not too ambitious or final. But at least make a work schedule: before the end of year the European Commission will present a proposal for a directive on parent companies and subsidiaries, which are the instruments that they use these large companies to contribute the least to the treasury. The goal is to prevent companies divert their profits to subsidiaries in other countries willing to look the other way at the time to pay the IRS.
The 27 heads of state and government discussed measures to boost intercabio banking information and to prevent the so-called "aggressive tax planning and relocation of benefits", ie practices that allow Apple pay 2%, or even less - of its 74,000 million (57,000 million) of income.
Moving to Ireland
But not address an aspect linked to these practices: corporate tax harmonization. Because if the company has been based gold iPods, iPhones and iPads decides to transfer his tax residence to Ireland is because this country taxes corporations only 12% .... and reach specific agreements to further reduce cases such as Apple. "That was not the topic of the day," admitted the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, after meeting with his European counterparts.
But besides the new directive will face the interests of several of the world's most powerful multinationals, the Twenty have pledged to end banking secrecy. To do this they have had to overcome the resistance of the two most affected partners, Austria and Luxembourg, which have blocked since 2008 the savings tax directive to not be at a disadvantage to other financial centers.
"We will apply from January 1, 2015 the same rules of automatic exchange of bank information of the other partners," he said after the meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. His Austrian counterpart Werner Fayman, was more cautious in ensuring that try to end tax evasion, but may not do so at once.
The Austrian leader recognized that the consensus was only possible because of the conclusions of the summit has joined the new directive allowing automatic information exchange will be made with other countries outside the EU such as Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein. The fear of Luxembourg and Austria is that if these countries did not join the list of his customers very secretive financial systems to move to other territories where all information would remain confidential. The novelty will bring the new directive is to affect all income received, including those who come from instruments that are typically used to pay less taxes as the Sicav.
Long ago as Tax Justice agencies have criticized the practices of these two countries. "Luxembourg is one of the world's most opaque in terms of bank secrecy," says the organization. "Money laundering occurs in the Austrian financial system, as well as non-financial institutions and companies. The money that organized crime washed mainly from major cases of fraud, smuggling, corruption, trafficking in drugs and people, "claimed the U.S. government in a 2011 report.
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