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"There are various contradictions in the broad substance of this resolution, which is to create a digital single market for the distribution of items of cultural, journalistic and creative content.
In order for this market to develop as broadly and as rapidly as possible, the Commission is proposing a temporary lower VAT on these goods and services of cultural content provided on an electronic platform. We uphold the principle of subsidiarity in that it is our view that the Commission must not encroach upon the powers of the Member States, and these include matters of indirect taxation and particularly the setting of VAT rates. Indeed, this is exactly what is being done through the so-called ‘financial assistance’ programmes, which, in fact, are authentic programmes of aggression instituted – with the IMF-EU seal of approval – in countries like Portugal.
All kinds of pressure, direct and indirect, are being applied to generalise and eternalise this interference on the pretext, so many times, of so-called ‘fiscal harmonisation’, of which so much is said even as the core questions are pushed aside: namely, harmonised by whom, in what way and in whose interests? Each Member State must be able to decide on its own whether to apply VAT and at what rate, nor must this reduced tax be a temporary measure but a permanent one for the kinds of content specified in the foregoing."@en1
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