欧州連合は、脱税対策として、税務情報を自動的に交換
The EU pact of fiscal data exchange by the end of year
La UE pacta el intercambio de datos fiscales antes de fin de año
“Si queremos incitar a los ciudadanos a ser honestos con sus impuestos, es importante que persigamos el fraude fiscal”, ha dicho Angela Merkel. El luxemburgués Juncker abre la puerta a levantar el secreto bancario a partir de 2015
La UE se limita a lanzar una señal política contra la evasión fiscal
Luis Doncel / Agencias Bruselas 22 MAY 2013 - 13:46 CET
The EU pact of fiscal data exchange by the end of year
"If we want to encourage people to be honest with your taxes, it is important that we pursue tax fraud," said Angela Merkel. Luxembourg's Juncker opens the door to lift banking secrecy from 2015
The EU is limited to send a political signal against tax evasion
Luis Doncel / Agencies Brussels 22 MAY 2013 - 13:46 CET
The Heads of State and Government of the European Union summit has concluded today dedicated to the fight against tax evasion and tax fraud with the commitment to adopt before the end of the year review of the Directive on taxation of savings. One of the agreements reached states that the EU will be equipped with an automatic data exchange, including nonresident aliens, to avoid tax leakage due to differences in the subject of Community legislation.
Leaders have achieved "a consensus to move towards their adoption before the end of the year, we are making progress in this area," said the president of the European Commission (EC) Jose Manuel Barroso, at the end of the meeting.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, believed that the future agreement on automatic exchange of tax information is a "breakthrough of great significance" to avoid further massive loss of resources that could be empelados productive investments for Europe, and infrastructure, health investments or educational.
"It's time to take a step forward in the fight (against tax evasion and tax fraud," said for his part, President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, who highlighted the loss of "hundreds of millions of euros" posed to the public purse these practices.
The summit was intended to address key issues such as the momentum necessary growth or job creation in a continent with more than 26 million unemployed, but at least European leaders have wanted to give a significant boost to the fight against tax evasion. German Chancellor, one of the countries with France and the United Kingdom over stressed the need to tackle a leak why every year escapes one trillion euros of European public coffers, has claimed on entry to the summit EU leaders to end with the "obstacles" to the exchange of tax information and present measures to combat tax fraud.
"If we want to encourage people to be honest with your taxes, it is important that we pursue tax fraud," said Angela Merkel, on the same line as the rest of Heads of State and Government will face today in Brussels .
One of the key points addressed European leaders is the exchange of tax information between partners. "There has to be finally data exchange in the European Union and must have tax information with third countries," the foreign minister added.
In addition to advancing the exchange of information, the EU wants to put a stop to the practices of companies to escape the clutches of the taxman. British Prime Minister, Conservative David Cameron has reiterated his belief in the importance of taxing low corporate taxes as a means to "encourage investment and employment and allow the UK to be a winner in the global race." But at the same time, the leader who rides the wave of growing euroscepticism surrounding the British Isles, has stressed the need to ensure that companies pay their appropriate. "That means international collaboration, sharing tax information," added Cameron.
For its part, the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has denied taking a "special treatment" to giant Apple has said that his country leads international efforts to achieve more transparency on tax planning of multinational companies.
Kenny has responded to the controversy provoked by a report from the U.S. Senate, accusing Apple to exploit loopholes in the U.S. tax code and use companies in Ireland to avoid paying taxes.
Despite declarations of good will, it seems unlikely that the EU out of the meeting with specific rules to address these problems. "Hopefully we can make some headway today," has merely stated the Prime Minister.
But in the war against the bunkers tax and banking secrecy, the EU does not have to seek out their enemies alone. Some of its partners today are without sharing customer data bank. Luxembourg and Austria lead blocking since 2008 the savings tax directive to not be at a disadvantage to other financial centers.
It seems that this attitude is changing. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has said that his country is ready to leave the bank secrecy if negotiated the exchange of information with countries like Switzerland. "Let's leave bank secrecy and move towards automatic information exchange," said the Luxembourg.
The aim is that this step will become reality next January 1, 2015. But Juncker insists that other countries like Switzerland also undertake to do so, because if not they would be at a competitive disadvantage. All indications are that European leaders, spurred by recent scandals such as the former Minister of Finance French, Jérôme Cahuzac or media revelations of the papers known as Offshoreleaks-pressure the rogue countries that have in the club, in order to claim similar measures those outside the EU.
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