Taxes and non-wage labour costs Sample Clauses

Taxes and non-wage labour costs. The parties have discussed various taxes and their importance for industrial development and competitiveness. The parties have noted that, even though there are significant differences of opinion, they agree on many important points. It is becoming more and more necessary to adopt an international approach to the tax structure in Sweden. The international perspective is particularly important in the case of taxes with a variable tax base, which is the case with very many of the taxes on capital. If this approach is not adopted, unhealthy “tax competition” between countries can be the result. This is serious if the differences between national tax systems influence the location of, for example, production, product development, legal domicile, head office, sales rights and/or ownership of companies. The parties are also agreed that a new tax reform is needed to stimulate labour, education and training, and enterprise. Income tax must be lowered, and marginal effects successively reduced in all tax brackets, taking into account the maintenance of stable public finances, and the demands on a modern welfare state to make resources available for education, health and the caring services. Stable public finances as such are an important foundation for a healthy business climate. The parties agree, when they deem it suitable, to take joint action in various ways to see to it that the Swedish and European tax systems are structured so that they strength Sweden’s development capacity as a country for business with the object of stimulating growth, employment and living standards.