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"I have voted against the report because, in paragraph 29, Parliament calls for ‘European tax coordination where it is necessary to meet the Treaty objectives’ and urges the Commission and the Council to ‘foster the process of convergence of VAT … and of taxes on business income’.
The Swedish Christian Democratic Party is against depriving the national parliaments – in Sweden’s case, the
of the right to make decisions about people’s taxes. If, instead, the EU starts making the decisions on tax, then the national parliaments and the Member States will be deprived of one of their most basic areas of competence. Instead, policy will be centralised at European level and in Brussels, ever further from the people. Demanding accountability will be a less clear and straightforward issue, and elected representatives will be more distant from the citizens who elect them and provide them with their mandates. Politics will become more anonymous and inaccessible. The EU will then become not only a project of cooperation but also a State – without, however, consisting of a common people, which is the necessary emotional basis and prerequisite for long-term cohesion."@en1
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