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"Mr President, the Commission’s proposal focuses on allowing the current system to continue to run until 2015 and an endeavour to restrict tax rate bands to 10%. This is very important, because otherwise, competition between Member States might be distorted in certain sectors.
Central to this parliamentary report is the notion that it will not be long before the Commission initiates a broad programme of consultation to establish a new system of value added tax. In my opinion, the amendments that Members have tabled are, contrary to the view of the Commissioner, extremely important, as even at this stage, we want to mark the direction in which we hope that this new VAT system will go. In future, we need to be able to lighten the administrative burden associated with VAT and make it as easy as possible for small and mediumsized enterprises, in particular, to produce reports, though at the same time effectively combating VAT fraud.
The public economy in many European countries at present is in a mess, and one solution proposed is to start to raise VAT rates. However, that will not be of any help in countries where it is common to avoid paying VAT. Here, I would like to refer to the report by Mr Casa adopted earlier on here. It focused, in particular, on ways to combat VAT fraud in connection with goods and services that were prone to this sort of abuse. I hope that the Commission will actually start to do something about this in the future."@en1
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