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The International Chamber of Shipping exhorts the EU to maintain the regimes of tonnage tax
the association proposes not to change the lines guides on the aids of Been about to the marine transport
June 11, 2012
The shipowning association International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has exhorted the institutions of the European Union to maintain in the their current form the measures of support to the industry of the shipping, before between all the regimes of tonnage tax, otherwise - it has admonished ICS - the European shipowning section would be found in serious disadvantage regarding the competitors anyway of the world and the number of companies of navigation with center in one of the Member States of the EU would be destined to diminish.
The ICS has turned such sollicitation participating to the phase of consultation on the lines guides on the aids of Been about to the started marine transport from the EU commission whose expiration is postponed today ( on 14 February 2012).
In the retort to the invitation of the EU commission, in charge of the external relations of the ICS, Simon Bennett, it has specified in the first place that the association puts the position totally in support of the maintenance of the status quo regarding the lines guides - made blank some smaller precisazioni - that is introduced in the answer detailed to the consultation sent from the shipowning association European European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA). "This - it has specified Bennett - as the lines guide delineates the picture that allows the application of the regimes of tonnage tax of the Member States of the EU, than they have been revealed to be a model of success that it is copied by many other nations all over the world, between which India, Korea, Japan and the United States. These outlines of tonnage tax are also similar to regimes based on taxes on the tonnage, accompanied from low rates taxes on the societies, that they are applied by many years from the opened marine registries in Third-country, as for example Bahamas, Liberia, Hong Kong and Singapore, under which is operated about the half of the world-wide fleet and that they are set in competition directed with the naval registries of the EU".
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The shipowning association International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has exhorted the institutions of the European Union to maintain in the their current form the measures of support to the industry of the shipping, before between all the regimes of tonnage tax, otherwise - it has admonished ICS - the European shipowning section would be found in serious disadvantage regarding the competitors anyway of the world and the number of companies of navigation with center in one of the Member States of the EU would be destined to diminish.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
