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"Mr President, we have been talking since the financial crisis about the need to harmonise taxes as part of the general move towards a common finance ministry and debt pooling and so on, but it is easy to forget that the European Union has been operating a form of tax harmonisation from the very beginning. Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of indirect and corporate taxes.
VAT was imposed in the United Kingdom in effect as a preparatory measure in parallel with our application process. It is an unpopular, difficult, expensive tax. It is not easy to pass on, trace and then collect but, much more seriously than that, tax harmonisation has the effect of reducing tax competition and thereby reducing what would otherwise be the main incentive for downward pressure on rates. Far from having harmonised rates of sales taxes across Europe, I would go in the other direction. I would like to see regions within countries and localities being able to compete on the basis of different tax rates. That would of course require us to leave the European Union, which some would say is a delicious bonus."@en1
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