Trade Unions and the Tax Justice Struggle in Europe Isolde Kunkel-Weber President, European Federation of Public Service Unions

McDonald’s Tax Avoidance

Tax priority: EU legislation on Public Country-by-Country reporting by multinationals EPSU/ETUC/tax justice NGOs joint amendments to make the proposal effective i.e. global, comparable, accessible Broader geographical scope: not only in the EU and list of tax havens Lower company threshold, from €750 M turnover to €40 M ( accounting directive) Larger data coverage : list of subsidiaries, FT equivalent employees, public subsidies

Too few women in the tax debate e. g Too few women in the tax debate e.g. hearing on tax justice at European Economic and Social Committee May 2017