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"Mr President, one of the reasons why we have fraud in VAT is because people are required, due to crippling austerity, to go outside the law for basic goods. Essential goods are made more expensive. The Greens representative mentioned tampons and women’s sanitary products. The Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland found that groups hardest hit by VAT were households in the poorest income decile – households in rural areas, six-person households and those containing a single adult with children.
I hear people say that VAT gives people choice. Where is the choice for low income families? The only people who really have choice with VAT are the rich. It is inequitable, and those who can afford to pay the most should pay the most.
In Ireland, our VAT take is around EUR 10 billion per year. This year alone we are going to burn two billion we already have on promissory note bonds. We get nothing back for it. We are also going to give away billions to Apple in tax. Fill that hole by taxing what should be taxed and get rid of this inequitable tax – and also stay out of our tax affairs. We are sovereign on that."@en1
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