Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-01-Speech-4-024"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common system of VAT - VAT refunds - VAT applied to highly labour-intensive services2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051201.3.4-024"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-01-Speech-4-0252
lpv:speaker	lp:José Manuel García-margallo Y Marfil2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; ECON (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I entirely agree with Mr Becsey’s speech, and I will therefore focus entirely on the reduced rate of value added tax applied to highly labour-intensive services. All the opinion polls carried out in Europe indicate that the Europeans have two concerns: finding work and being certain that there will be resources to maintain the Welfare State. A lot has been written with a view to reassuring the citizens in this regard, but little has been done. Plenty of words and no action. Probably one of the few concrete initiatives to have been taken in this area has been the establishment of a reduced value added tax on services that create employment, services that promote the contracting of workers, in particular the least qualified. A reduced VAT rate that also brings to the surface resources which were previously submerged, and which can be used to fund future pensions. And a reduced VAT on work that enables us to rebalance the unstable relationship between taxes on capital and taxes on work. The situation at the moment is that this experiment, which began in 2000, may come to an end unless it is extended. And the Council still has no opinion; the Council does not know and has no reply. I would like to say to the Commissioner that he can do much more than he has said in his speech. The Commissioner can put pressure on the Council: he can tell it that it is not a good idea to end this experiment just when new States are being incorporated, States in which the problems we have been resolving — the lack of jobs, the black economy — are more pressing than in the old States; that it is not a good idea to end an experiment, and thereby risk an increase in prices and a reduction in employment; that it is not a good idea to end this experiment just when we are about to discuss the Directive on services, which has created such concern in terms of employment in the Member States, and the Commissioner can tell it that this Parliament is unanimous and that this Parliament does not like to be treated as a joke, especially when the Council is not offering any well-founded opinion in return."@en1

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