fiscal neutrality | tax neutrality

equitable common fiscal policy | impartial application of tax | tax neutrality

economic neutrality concept

principle of fiscal neutrality | principle of tax neutrality

6. Welcomes the publication of a new tax policy package and asks the Commission to put forward an ambitious package of legislative proposals seeking to ensure a fair taxation system, based on the principle that taxes are to be paid in the country where profits are generated, avoiding internal market distortion and unfair competition; considers that such an agenda should include legislative proposals for compulsory country-by-country reporting by multinational companies, a European Tax Identification Number (TIN), the definition of tax havens and the establishment of an EU blacklist with the aim of eradicating them, and proposals needed ...[+++]to move towards legislative agreement on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base; considers that the EU’s development and cooperation agenda should also be adapted and conditionality upgraded to effectively fight tax evasion and tax avoidance; calls on the Commission to follow up the recommendations made by Parliament in its legislative initiative report and the TAXE committee’s own-initiative report to ensure tax justice;

I then joined the team at the Directorate-General for Taxation which initiated a radical modernisation of company tax by aligning taxable income with accounting results, on the basis of the principle of neutrality, eliminating the double taxation of dividends in income tax, and introducing international tax transparency and tax neutrality in corporate restructuring procedures.

According to the Spanish authorities (29), the Spanish tax system provides for different tax schemes, as in the case of shareholding acquisitions in foreign companies compared with acquisitions in Spanish companies (impossible to undertake merger operations, risk assumption, etc.), in order to achieve the tax neutrality sought by the Spanish domestic legislation and Community law itself and also in order to ensure that the Spanish tax system is consistent and efficient.

Amortisation of financial goodwill for these transactions, which fall outside the Community factual and legal framework, may be necessary to ensure tax neutrality.