European Parliament
Andersson, Färm, Hedkvist Petersen, Karlsson and Sandberg-Fries (PSE ),
in writing.
(SV)
We Swedish Social Democrats agree with large parts of the report but wish to point out our attitude towards a common tax policy.
We support the idea of minimum levels for certain taxes, for example corporate income tax and tax on capital, because it would facilitate the implementation of a policy on the internal market. By means of a partly common tax policy, we could, for example, make environmentally damaging activities more expensive. We wish, however, to emphasise that we are opposed to the harmonisation of income tax. In the future too, it should be the national parliaments that legislate on income taxes.

