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Helping businesses: cross-party report contains 12 proposals for greater transparency

They agreed. Assembly Finance Committee Chairman Eric Cockerel (La France insoumise) and General Rapporteur Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance) unanimously urge French companies to be more transparent about the state aid they receive in a report published this Wednesday on tax differentials between companies.

For the two MEPs who are co-rapporteurs in the parliamentary mission on the issue, “greater transparency is needed to hold companies accountable and encourage virtuous behavior.” In their report, which notes that tax gaps between SMEs and large companies as a whole have narrowed between the mid-2000s and 2019, they collectively call for “increasingly making it mandatory for companies to report government aid received.”

“The Worker’s Right to Control”

In the paper, which discusses corporate tax, tax incentives and mechanisms to reduce it, the two MPs also call for “examination of the possibility and conditions for increasing the right of control for employees in relation to the company’s tax policy.”

Thus, the document contains 12 proposals. Among them is the strengthening of “the human and technical resources of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, the investigative services and the services responsible for tax control.”

discrepancies

But the two speakers disagree on important issues. Thus, they have two opposing analyzes of the evolution of tax rate differentials after 2019. Thus, Eric Cockerel believes that the tax measures of the current majority, such as lowering production taxes or lowering the corporate tax rate, are “harmful”. in terms of tax equity and lost profits and do not correct the differences identified in our report.” As such, Insoumis puts forward several personal recommendations, such as the idea of ​​making the corporate tax more progressive or “deeply overhaul” or even abolish the research tax credit.

Jean-Rene Kazenev, on the contrary, believes that after 2019 the difference in taxation between small and large companies “should continue to decrease.” And, in particular, through the reform of the international tax system, carried out under the auspices of the OECD, or through “reduction of corporate property tax, which should mainly benefit micro-enterprises.”

Comment by group member Lyot and figure in the opposition to pension reform Charles de Courson: “According to your proposals, I find you very moderate.” “We make an almost identical observation, we don’t have such timid recommendations, but we don’t necessarily have the same optimism about the situation,” Eric Cockerell summed up for his part. It remains to be seen whether these 12 proposals will be heard.

Source: Le Parisien

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