Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-168"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.7.3-168"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-1692
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, on behalf of the Legal Affairs Committee I would like to address the same report as Mr Ford has addressed. On the face of it this proposal would seem to be about taxation of non-EU businesses, but, of course, what it should be about is how we encourage and nurture Europe's e-economy, which is a very fragile flower. In this sense, I welcome the Commission's brave attempt to find a way to close the competitive gap that clearly exists between EU and non-EU e-business. But what we have to ask, and what our committee asked, was: is this the right way to do it? Our opinion was very clearly that it is not. I was always told that one of the first rules or principles of a legislator should be: do not make law you cannot enforce. This was our committee's major concern. It may not be enough to rely on the good will of enterprises outside our reach. The good guys will comply, the bad ones will still be bad, and consumers may well use them in their search for a good deal. What else could we be doing here? There is much talk about setting up business models for e-commerce regulation, but that is a wider issue and should be dealt with in a much more transparent way. There are underlying assumptions in this proposal about the place of taxation which could store up problems for the future in an international context. We may have something to learn from America, where they have, of course, imposed a moratorium on such e-tax. In short, the aim of this proposal is correct but the method is misconceived and if we really want to encourage Europe's e-economy, a right signal would be zero rate VAT for our own e-business rather than trying to impose our problems on others."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2003-03-05)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Wallis (ELDR ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market"1

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