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Over the last few years, every aspect of the travel industry has undergone profound changes. Indeed, observers have noted a growing rise in the number and range of services on offer, and a parallel increase in numbers and types of customers.
Given these historical changes, a rapid overhaul of the special VAT scheme for travel agents, in force since 1977, has become imperative.
I therefore wish to express my full support for Parliament’s report and congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Torres Marques. I agree unreservedly with the approval of the changes to the VAT scheme for travel agents, which involve taxing tour operators based outside the EU when they offer their services to European consumers.
This measure will eliminate the unfair competition affecting the European travel industry. It also strikes a blow against tax evasion on the part of European companies falsely claiming to be based outside the EU and not charging VAT to consumers.
Once these adjustments have been made, the European travel industry will be able to compete on fair and even terms in the highly competitive world travel market, inaugurating a state of affairs which can only have favourable repercussions for our consumers.
Tourism in the Algarve, therefore, can only benefit from this new system."@en1
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