L. whereas it is not clear whether Maltese citizens will really benefit from this new policy, for example through the collection of taxes, as the foreign investors concerned will not be required to pay taxes; recalls that citizenship involves not only rights but also responsibilities;

It should therefore be for national law to determine, for instance, how taxes and other liabilities of a public-law nature are calculated and paid, whether these be taxes payable by the deceased at the time of death or any type of succession-related tax to be paid by the estate or the beneficiaries.

15. Welcomes the promotion of more disclosure of financial information and the country-by-country reporting for extractive industries envisaged by the Commission and looks forward for its future legislative proposal treating the automatic disclosure of transnational corporations’ profit and tax payment in each individual developing countries in which they operate, in order to fight against abuse of tax havens, tax evasion and illicit capital flights; also asks for greater transparency for all industries extracting raw materials in developing countries via payment of the relevant taxes and open declaration of their activities; stresses the impo ...[+++]rtance of EU-UN cooperation with regard to the Kimberley Process;

2. A Member State exercising the right referred to in paragraph 1 shall give relief for the tax which, but for the provisions of this Directive, would have been charged on the fiscally transparent company on its income, profits or capital gains, in the same way and in the same amount as that Member State would have done if that tax had actually been charged and paid.

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where the Member State of the transferring company applies a system of taxing worldwide profits, that Member State shall have the right to tax any profits or capital gains of the permanent establishment resulting from the merger, division, partial division or transfer of assets, on condition that it gives relief for the tax that, but for the provisions of this Directive, would have been charged on those profits or capital gains in the Member State in which that permanent establishment is situated, in the same way and in the same amount as it would have done if that tax had actually been charged and paid.

Using the credit method would result in very little tax being paid in the state of residence because the source country's tax would fully (or almost fully) cover any tax liability.