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Member States find it increasingly difficult to protect their national tax bases from erosion as aggressive and complex tax planning structures have evolved to be particularly sophisticated and often take advantage of the increased mobility of both capital and persons within the internal market.

These structures commonly consist of arrangements which are developed across various jurisdictions and move taxable corporate and individual's profits towards more beneficial tax regimes or have the effect of reducing the taxpayer´s overall tax bill.

As a result, Member States often experience considerable reductions in their tax revenues hence hindering them from applying growth-friendly tax policies and sustain welfare policies necessary for the most vulnerable social groups °°°°°°°°°°°while raising walls from°°°°°°°°°° fulfilling the constitutional obligations in terms of fundamental rights, aggravating social and economic inequality, increasing political power of cross-border business, shifting taxation towards less mobile factors such as labour and consumption, thus making the tax system less progressive, and widening the democratic deficit.

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