Irena PEREŠA

What Irena PEREŠA has said (3)

• “So the the know how is certainly also there. To Mr. Panka panca presentation. So again as was already reminded, we do have uh, some painful experience of the use of enhanced cooperation. So here I will remind you, this was a 2013 and the financial transaction tax. The tax. Uh, after many years, two proposals. Member states have not reached an agreement. And the commission has always stated that we would support an agreement in the council on this, but it is up to the member states, of course, to agree on this measure before there is a renewed call for an own resource in this sense. I also liked something that I saw on one of your slides was that we need legal innovation. I agree with you. We are not in 1988 anymore, which is also a piece of information that, you know, is is, um, way more than a curiosity, um, maybe just to refer to some of the taxes that you that you mentioned. We have been also discussing, you know, these exit taxes, um, and different types of corporate wealth based taxes, even withholding taxes. But there's, many, many, um, national level, um, realities to consider, including, for instance, tax agreements. And then a lot of these have a big tax avoidance, um, issue. This could which is particularly for some assets, as we know today, capital moves very freely. And I will not say without a trace, but still maybe not as much as we would want. Uh, with this, I would conclude my remarks. And again, thank you for the very inspiring presentations. And thank you for having us here today.”
  Taxation of financial transactions · Own EU resources
• “The difficulties around some of the ideas. As the presidency reported yesterday, a lot was discussed in the Council, including some ideas related to the taxation of the corporate sector in particular. Now, here, as you know, one also needs to take to account into account a different geopolitical situation and the status of discussions on pillar one and pillar two that have been, I think, stalled is by now an understatement for for some time now, maybe again, a few words. I agree that with Mr. Davos that the net balances narrative is quite harmful. I do disagree that, uh, everything is an opportunity cost for member state. And I really liked, uh, the commentary that we heard, uh, also from, uh, from the rapporteur that we cannot look at common spending as an opportunity cost purely. It is synergies. It is economies of scale. I am very interested in the proposal that you put that you put forward. I would have many questions, but I'm I will be eagerly waiting to see, uh, you know, the data and the how it's developed. Maybe today you can also elaborate a bit more because you got these questions to Mrs. Christie. Extremely, extremely interesting presentation, including on the liquidity premium, which I fully, fully take. And I thank you for confirming that there is a large potential and value added in the EU borrowing to support EU policy objectives. And over the recent years, even if you isolate for new, there was an increase, not only the set up of infrastructure, which I think was done in an incredibly short amount of time, but also, um, the use of market instruments for just to name, you know, MFA, MFA plus Ukraine facility you safe, sure, etc..”
  Own EU resources · Size of EU budget · Priorities of taxation policy in the EU
• “Good morning everyone. Thank you for having us here. And above all, thank you for the three very, very interesting presentations. I will have just a few remarks. So let me let me start with the present and with the current proposal. I think we. Should value the fact that the outcome of this package put forward in 2023 was, in fact, the result of a careful balancing. It is a package that could have been implemented immediately, further aligning the revenue side of the budget to climate objectives and policy objectives in the corporate sector. And as you know, it was. Parameterized with the idea to cater for the NGO repayment and the Social Climate Fund as a segue to maybe the first commentary on on Mr. Darvish's presentation. And again, we have already ingrained in the current system and the current proposal, some measures to tackle precisely the regressive nature of individual own resources to the extent that it's possible. So in ETS, there's a there's a Sam, the solidarity adjustment mechanism, VAT and plastics both have caps meant precisely to mitigate a potential regressive effect. So there are measures that can be implemented. And already actually there are. So I think this is maybe something that was that was overlooked in this sense. Now going forward. And also as the president of the commission stated recently in her speech at the 2025 annual Budget Conference that some of you might have attended. We are and continue looking into further proposals to enhance the package because in addition to the repayment needs that remain, that remain there, there are new challenges that we need to tackle together. Now, we also need to acknowledge this is not this is no news.”
  Own resources (plastics) · Own EU resources · Size of EU budget