The Partit Nazzjonalista delegation in the European Parliament believes that decisions about tax systems in European Union member states should continue to be decided by the respective governments, and not by the European Union.
As MEPs voted to the establish a Parliamentary Committee on financial crime and tax evasion, David Casa, Roberta Metsola Francis Zammit Dimech said:
"We will never allow the European Union to decide on behalf of the Maltese people on how to run our tax systems. That was, still is, and must remain, the competence of the respective Governments. This Committee should focus its efforts on the murder of Slovakian journalist Jan Kuciak, who like Daphne Caruana Galizia, was executed as he investigated financial crimes.
The Committee should not waste resources on Member States' tax systems and concentrate on crime and preventing abuse. There is too much at stake. "
The European Parliament took the decision to set up this committee after the PANA Committee - investigating the Panama Papers scandal, including Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Keith Schembri - found a number of illegalities committed by politicians in both tax evasion and money laundering.
In this regard, David Casa, Roberta Metsola and Francis Zammit Dimech said: "If the Prime Minister had sacked Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri, Malta would not have remained under scrutiny during the past months." Now that the Committee has been established for a term of one year, PN MEPs will be doing everything they can to ensure that no harm is done to Malta's interests and instead focuses on financial crimes, corruption and abuse of power.
"Our interests are the jobs of thousands of Maltese in the financial services sector and the gaming, as well as thousands of other people who depend on these sectors by means of accommodation, entertainment amongs other things," said PN MEPs.
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