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"en.20031215.8.1-096"2
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"Mr President, the postal services have been a state monopoly for 150 years. In the current parliamentary term, the majority has endorsed international, service-oriented companies taking over parts of this work. In the discussion on this subject, various drawbacks have been mentioned, including the fear that in future, an ever-higher price will be charged for an ever-worsening service. Hardly any attention was then paid to the impact on taxation.
The complications are now evident. Public companies do not pay any VAT, but if customers can claim back their VAT, sometimes a private company becomes the cheaper option. As continuing to farm out postal transport to the rail services becomes too expensive, the companies' own use of environmentally-unfriendly lorry transport increases. It is uncertain whether the Member States will declare their high VAT rates or their varying low VAT rates to be applicable. Prices may well increase for the users in many cases.
It is useful for the rapporteur now to propose postponing the application until such time as the market has been further liberalised and for the draftsman of the opinion to express the wish to increase the weight limit to ten kilograms. Not to privatise would be the best solution. Not the market, but the employees and customers deserve protection, and this is ideally done without this measure."@en1
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