European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland
for Election
of
the 9th European Parliament 2019
Finance and Economy
4.2 Business Taxation in the EU
One of the problem areas of global financial
policy is the insufficient prevention of tax fraud and tax embezzlement. The
AfD is therefore committed to the ending of illegal procedures with the help of
the OECD. For that, the EU is not competent.
To avoid shifting of profits, states must
alter their double taxation agreements with Germany. The national states are
competent to manage tax agreements and negotiate with the OECD. We reject
corresponding efforts to involve the EU in double taxation agreement
negotiations. We reject a harmonization of business taxes driven by the EU on
an apportionment basis as well as by tax assessment. Since the abolition of exchange
rates within the Eurozone, countries can no longer compensate for trade
imbalances. The AfD previously warned of doing away with national tax authority
as an instrument of competition. The decisions of a country to compensate for
disadvantages of location by means of reduced tax assessment are for countries
with low economic performance indeed necessary for survival. We support a
financial transactions tax should it be introduced and received by the national
states in all trade centers, including those external to the EU. Otherwise, it
will amount only to a displacement of trade activity.
4.3 EU Finance – Cask without a Head
The AfD decisively rejects the EU Commission’s
proposal to increase the multi-year financial framework (MFR) from 192 to 1,279
billion euros for the years 2021 to 2027. In regards the EU’s shrinkage with
the exit of the net contributor Great Britain, this would be absurd. Additionally,
for the first time a special asset shall be financed with 28 billion euros for “globalization,
solidarity fund and flexibility instrument”.
Germany’s EU contribution would then climb from the present 26 to 40
billion euros. That would be an increase of Germany’s portion of EU financing
from the present 20 to then 24%.
The AfD rejects the expansion of the EU
budget. Penalties imposed and received by the EU are to be forwarded
proportionately to the member states.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
