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"Mr President, the main aim of the Lisbon Strategy is to increase the competitiveness of national economies. A high level of competitiveness enables economic growth to be accelerated and new jobs to be created, and makes it possible to fund important social aims. Unfortunately the current tax system in EU Member States does not favour implementation of the Lisbon Strategy. The burdens placed on employment law and economic activity are too great, tax rates are too differentiated, and the regulations are too complicated. At the same time the tax system is burdened with an excessive number of functions and tasks – economic, fiscal, social or environmental.
For taxes to aid competitiveness, they must above all create incentives to work, to develop economic activities and to innovate. To this end taxes, especially direct taxes, should be set at a moderate level, avoiding unnecessary differentiation of rates and excessive progression. Since direct taxes exert a stronger, negative impact on production and employment, we must make greater use of indirect taxes when planning budgetary income.
In relation to the debate, Mr President, I wish to express my concern that there is too much ideology and politics, and too little real economic knowledge. The best example is the concepts that are used here, such as fiscal dumping or social dumping. There is no objective standard for taxation, and it is therefore not possible to accuse those states that apply low company taxation levels of fiscal dumping."@en1
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