137. Considers that increased transparency regarding the activities of multinational companies is essential for ensuring that tax administrations are able to efficiently combat BEPS; reiterates accordingly its position that MNCs in all sectors should disclose clearly and comprehensibly in their financial statements, broken down by Member State and by third country in which they have an establishment, a range of aggregate information, including their profit or loss before tax, taxes on profit or loss, number of employees, assets held, basic information about tax rulings (country-by-country reporting); underlines the importance of making ...[+++] this information available to the public, possibly in the form of a central EU register; stresses furthermore that SMEs and mid-caps which are not MNCs should be exempt from such an obligation; calls on the Council to adopt, by the end of 2015, Parliament’s position as voted in the Shareholder Rights Directive in July 2015; stresses that transparency requirements should be designed and implemented in such a way that they do not result in EU firms being put at a competitive disadvantage;

135. Considers that increased transparency regarding the activities of multinational companies is essential for ensuring that tax administrations are able to efficiently combat BEPS; reiterates accordingly its position that MNCs in all sectors should disclose clearly and comprehensibly in their financial statements, broken down by Member State and by third country in which they have an establishment, a range of aggregate information, including their profit or loss before tax, taxes on profit or loss, number of employees, assets held, basic information about tax rulings (country-by-country reporting); underlines the importance of making ...[+++] this information available to the public, possibly in the form of a central EU register; stresses furthermore that SMEs which are not MNCs should be exempt from such an obligation; calls on the Council to adopt, by the end of 2015, Parliament’s position as voted in the Shareholder Rights Directive in July 2015; stresses that transparency requirements should be designed and implemented in such a way that they do not result in EU firms being put at a competitive disadvantage;

However, for this solution to be fully implemented the provision in the PSD, obliging Member States to exempt from taxation profit distributions received by parent companies from subsidiaries of another Member States, needs to be amended and eliminated.

Would a reduction in capital taxes, the other dominant form of profit-insensitive taxes, help your industry as well?

Council Regulation (EEC) No 218/92 of 27 January 1992 on administrative cooperation in the field of indirect taxation (VAT) established in this respect a system of close cooperation amongst the Member States' administrative authorities and between those authorities and the Commission.

We could put forward various ideas on this matter, including that of levying a ‘special introduction of the euro’ tax on the profits of large companies, since they will be the main beneficiaries of the single currency.