Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-05-Speech-2-254"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-02-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VAT – Direct and indirect taxation2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020205.11.2-254"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-05-Speech-2-2552
lpv:speaker	lp:Wolfgang Ilgenfritz2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the EU is continuing to be taken for a ride by professional fraudsters, a situation which is, regrettably, a beneficiary of the excessively complex VAT system. It is through our tax regulations, which are in part difficult to understand, that we are laying ourselves open to fraudsters and indirectly promoting tax fraud. What we need in order to raise the level of taxpayer honesty and increase tax revenue is not only efficient monitoring and effective cooperation by the tax authorities, but also comprehensible and simpler legal texts as a fundamental precondition for this. The taxpayer very often refuses to pay taxes he regards as unfair. Incomprehensible tax laws and the tax burdens arising from them are, though, always or automatically seen by the taxpayer as unfair. We are therefore in urgent need of a reform of the VAT system, which is far too expensive and complex to the point of being incomprehensible even by experts. It is not acceptable for transactions to be tax-exempt within the business chain between the Member States but taxable at national level. It is advance deduction of tax within the business chain that facilitates this evasion of tax in the first place and that should therefore be abolished. By taking this step, we would be cutting the ground from under the fraudsters' feet, simplifying the system and avoiding needless controls, with all their vexations, which are a further burden on our small and medium-sized enterprises. We should, therefore, be thinking, first of all, not only in terms of how we get the different authorities to work together better, but also about how we can simplify the system that makes fraud possible in the first place. That would be a step in the right direction, but we will, nonetheless, support Mrs Kauppi's report, as we share her view that it is self-evident that cooperation should be improved and that the effort must be made to make Europe less bureaucratic."@en1

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