Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-174"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VAT2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.7.3-174"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-1752
lpv:speaker	lp:Alain Lipietz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I believe that the successive interventions of our fellow MEPs in the Liberal Group show the complexity of the problem. It is difficult to understand why the Liberals want to do away with tax on e-commerce and to place a tax on the aviation fuel used in aircraft. I think it is important to establish some criteria. Aeroplanes are no less modern than e-commerce. Compact discs are not exactly antediluvian, and it would appear that these have to be taxed, whereas programmes circulating on the Internet are apparently to be exempt from tax. It is important to know, on the one hand, whether a very important aspect of economic activity assists the administration of public services and, from that point of view, taxation (like State funding) is absolutely unavoidable, and e-commerce cannot be exempt from this. On the other hand, taxation must be selected in such a way as to deter the consumer from choosing technologies which are the most harmful to the environment. That is the situation we are in at present, with the lack of a tax on aviation fuel scandalously boosting air travel at the expense of rail travel, even in circumstances in which, for other reasons such as noise and congestion, rail travel should be given preference in Europe. I am thinking in particular of the London-Paris-Amsterdam-Frankfurt quadrilateral. I believe that the position adopted in Mr García-Margallo y Marfil’s two reports, whereby both e-commerce and aviation fuel would be taxed, is excellent and we shall vote in favour of them. We would particularly congratulate the Commission for encouraging us to be bold when it comes to internal taxation of aviation. That being said, our collective view is that another tax should be contemplated, other than that relating to fuels, a tax affecting all airlines whenever their planes take off and land at European Union airports, so that we can circumvent international regulations and be in a position to tax our competitors too."@en1

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