quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2016

Eurochamber creates research commission on Panama Papers

                    Captura de imagem dos líderes envolvidos no escândalo vazado pela Panama Papers

Strasbourg - The plenary of the European Parliament gave the green light on Wednesday the creation of a research commission on Panama Papers, which will take 12 months to analyze the filtering and countries and the European Commission (EC) met with their obligations respect.

The committee will be composed of 65 members and will have the task of "investigating infringement claims and maladministration in the implementation of EU law in relation to money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance" by the Commission or Member States, according to the mandate for its creation.

For this, it will have 12 months to prepare a report on the conclusions to draw from your research on this filtering mass that revealed hundreds of suspected cases of tax evasion by creating companies in tax havens.

MEPs of the committee will focus its efforts on examining whether the EC -the institution in charge of enforcing with comunitária- legislation failed in time to force Member States to comply with various regulations on laundering, combating tax evasion and tax cooperation.

Also study whether countries are complying effectively with its obligations or are turning a blind eye towards this phenomenon.

Last week, the European Parliament had noted that the Panama Papers not only created "concern" for the possible cases of laundering of capital, but also "recalcaram the importance of the exchange of tax information between tax authorities."

Also pointed to the importance of seeing how European countries act as the non-cooperative jurisdictions in -the tax known as tax havens.

After the scandal, France included the Panama again in its blacklist and the Commission proposed the creation of these classifications of tax havens in Europe.

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