Combating Offshore Secrecy and Tax Evasion

by name voted on 21.10.2021

Summary

The resolution calls for stronger EU and global measures to combat tax evasion and money laundering exposed by the Pandora Papers.

9 21.10.2021

Other

economy

finance

justice

taxation

transport

human rights

administrative law

public administration

business and competition

information technology and data processing

Key points

The Pandora Papers revealed massive use of offshore secrecy jurisdictions by politicians and wealthy individuals to shield assets from taxation.
There is an urgent need for publicly accessible and accurate registers showing who the real owners (beneficial owners) of companies are.
The EU must ensure the effective protection of whistleblowers and investigative journalists from legal harassment.
Member States must fully implement rules regarding anti-money laundering and the creation of beneficial ownership registers.

Vote

PPE

S&D

Renew

Verts/ALE

ID

ECR

The Left

NI

Total

Speeches

2 Speeches in total

Pro

Contra

Dita CHARANZOVÁ

Dita CHARANZOVÁ

Renew

0:46 min

12. Second voting session

Othmar KARAS

PPE

0:40 min

5. First voting session

Documents (PDFs)

JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Pandora Papers: implications for the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Pandora Papers: implications for the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Pandora Papers: implications for the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Pandora Papers: implications for the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance Pandora Papers: implications for the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance

These raw data are provided by the Open Data Portal of the European Union (data.europa.eu) and are licensed under ODC-BY 1.0.