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"Yesterday evening, at the end of the debate, we were astounded to see the Commission pull away the veil and declare that it was not, in any case, proposing to extend the experiment of reduced rates of VAT for labour-intensive services, even if Member States called for it unanimously (as was the case on 25 November 2003). This confirmed for us the anti-democratic nature of the sole right of initiative and, at the same time, the Commission’s arrogance in using it to protect its interests of power.
This is because it really is a case of interests of power. The Commission wants to move towards a VAT system based on ‘country of origin’ which would give it a central role and more power. This is why it proposed its so-called rationalisation plan‘, where the continuation of some reduced taxes were only there to act as bait.
In this way, the professions, particularly those in catering and construction, find themselves being used as pawns by the Commission.
We hope that, in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference, ministers will take account of these considerations and be forthright in drawing attention to them. Pending this, we support the excellent Randzio-Plath report which understood what was at stake."@en1
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