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"Mr President, I think that the VAT exemption should be lifted. I do not share the Commissioner’s views on liberalisation, but I am not convinced by Mr Goebbels’ arguments. I think that there is already an internal market for postal services, except for private use. Mail to private individuals, for example, only represents 10% of the turnover of the French postal service. The remainder is mired in competition, and there are inequalities in that competition. Contrary to what Mr Schmidt said, I think that the traditional public operators are particularly penalised by the inappropriate taxation system and by being unable to deduct VAT from their purchases. The reasons are not only purely financial; it is about being able to develop. I would also like to add that there is a tax on salaries to compensate for the so-called privilege of VAT exemption .
It would be paradoxical to claim to want to defend public service companies while allowing them to be strangled. I think that the correct solution in these circumstances is to keep the Schmidt and Lulling amendments, which are a further step to the left, with obligatory reduced and super-reduced rates for services that are part of the universal service."@en1
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