Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-03-Speech-3-262"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-12-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Combating tax evasion connected with intra-Community transactions (common system of VAT) - Combating tax evasion connected with intra-Community transactions - European Court of Auditors' Special Report No 8/2007 concerning administrative cooperation in the Field of VAT (debate)2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gabriele Stauner2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2006-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2006-01-18--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2006-01-18--2009-07-13)3 substitute; JURI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (2006-01-18--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2006-01-18--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, approximately 2.25% of the gross domestic product of the EU, in figures approximately EUR 200 billion a year – as Mr Staes has already said – is lost in value added tax evasion, circumvention and fraud. Those are the facts on which Mr Staes’ report is rightly based. From the replies to five written questions on this topic which I put to the Council and Commission – by the way, I also regret that the Council is so sparsely represented – it has emerged, among other things, that in 2005 value added tax losses in Germany alone amounted to EUR 17 billion and in the United Kingdom to EUR 18 billion. These figures really make it clear to everyone that considerable damage is being done to the national economy and that this must be stopped as soon as possible. How is this to be accomplished, however? The answer to date was – according to the Court of Auditors, which has devoted itself to this topic in a special report – through cooperation between the national administrative authorities responsible, but that is precisely what has not worked at all in recent years. Once again Europeans find themselves in a situation where they are pursuing a well-intentioned goal but are counting their chickens before they are hatched. And in this case the chickens are the Member States which are unable to crack down on international evasion of value added tax by means of administrative measures. Thus, for example, there are major unexplained differences in the figures for requests for information received and requests for information answered. The mirror image differences in the statistics for intra-Community trade notified by the Commission in reply to my written question of 6 May, which are supposed to have amounted to the princely sum of EUR 77 billion in 2007, may also be an indication of value added tax fraud. I would take this opportunity to ask the Commission when the results of the study will be presented to us."@en1
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