Source: European Parliament
B10‑0076/2024
Motion for a European Parliament resolution on design and concept flaws of new own resources
The European Parliament,
– having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap on the introduction of new own resources[1],
– having regard to Rule 149 of its Rules of Procedure,
1. Is gravely concerned that the European Court of Auditors, in 2024, found the data on the recently introduced plastic-based own resource (‘plastic tax’) to be unreliable and to lack comparability[2];
2. Expresses concern that the amounts paid by Member States are not calculated justly or reasonably;
3. Underlines that all forms of EU taxation, including indirect taxation such as the emissions trading system, lack democratic legitimacy;
4. Regrets that many new own resources unfairly burden the poorest citizens through indirect taxes and incentives to move jobs to non-EU countries;
5. Emphasises that the public will closely scrutinise new revenue schemes if industrial jobs keep disappearing to non-EU countries;
6. Recalls that citizens have a right to be informed of the cost of new own resources;
7. Calls on the Commission not to present any proposals for new EU taxes, nor to promote existing ones.