Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-26-Speech-4-092"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040226.5.4-092"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-26-Speech-4-0932
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I have voted against the report, which was however approved by 334 votes, with 72 votes against and 42 abstentions. The report calls for ‘a general review of the own resources system’. It is hard to interpret that demand in terms other than that of Parliament’s wanting to open the way to EU taxation in the manner expressed in Mrs Haug’s report () on the EU’s own resources, adopted by a majority of Parliament on 5 July 2001. Neither in Sweden nor in other EU countries do people hanker after another level of taxation. All historical experience shows that a new level of taxation is there to stay and leads in time to a heavier tax burden. Ultimately, what we have here are issues of principle concerning who is to be entitled to demand tax and whether the Swedish people’s ancient right to impose taxes upon itself is now to be emptied of content. The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats does not wish to introduce a fourth level of taxation in the form of an EU tax over and above that paid to the local authority, the county council and the state. Quite apart from that, hardly anyone can want to see a heavier tax burden in the Member States. In the case of Sweden, which now already has the world’s heaviest tax burden, it would be additionally onerous."@en1

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