LuxLeaks: EPP Group wants to change EU tax policy

Parliament votes on Report shedding light on unfair corporate tax practices/EPP Group criticises Finance Ministers Dijsselbloem and Gramegna

The EPP Group in the European Parliament wants EU tax policy to change after the so-called LuxLeaks scandal. "We need far more cooperation between Member States. The only way to avoid losing millions of tax revenue is to introduce a harmonised corporate tax base in Europe without harmonising tax rates. Without a harmonised tax base it is impossible to make sure that taxes are paid there where the economic activity is", said Danuta Hübner MEP, the EPP Group's Shadow Rapporteur of the Report on unfair corporate tax practices, ahead of today's debate in Parliament's plenary.

We have the suspicion that the group which was set up to prevent tax roguery is in fact just a fig leaf covering a lack of activity Burkhard Balz MEP

Burkhard Balz MEP, the EPP Group's Spokesman for tax policy, criticised the lack of cooperation of certain Member States. "Jeroen Dijsselbloem and Pierre Gramegna belong to the list of Finance Ministers who refused to give Parliament access to the documents of the Council working group on tax cooperation. Therefore we have the suspicion that the group which was set up to prevent tax roguery is in fact just a fig leaf covering a lack of activity", Balz said.