Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-11-22-Speech-1-081"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Olle Schmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank the rapporteur very much. As a matter of principle, I believe that we should avoid controlling consumption by means of VAT rates. However, as long as exceptions and reduced VAT rates do not obviously interfere with the free market, we have hitherto chosen to accept differences between EU Member States. However, as you well know, Professor Monti states in his report on the single market that current differences can also adversely affect the single market. It is therefore important for us to call for a definitive system of VAT rates and to clearly point out that a review of the VAT Directive should use the single market strategy as a guideline rather than the separate interests of the individual countries. It is also important, as the Commissioner says, for us to focus on reducing the administrative burdens, removing tax barriers and improving the business environment, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, while at the same time ensuring that we create a system that stands firm against fraud. Taxes are, of course, a very national matter and one in which the nations’ self-determination is important. At the same time, it is important to remember that a well-functioning internal market probably requires more and closer cooperation, including with regard to matters of taxation, than we have today. I therefore hope that the Commission – and the Commissioner – will have the courage to tackle these issues in its forthcoming proposals and that these proposals will actually take as their starting point a well-functioning internal market, despite national opposition. Difficult questions in difficult times require detailed analysis."@en1
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