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"We voted against the two reports by Mr García-Margallo y Marfil on combating tax evasion connected with intra-Community transactions, or, to put it plainly, VAT fraud in trade between Member States.
Naturally we condemn this fraud and endorse intergovernmental cooperation between the relevant national agencies. What the rapporteur proposes, however, goes far beyond this, with the creation of a single ‘EU tax record’ available to national administrations, for the purposes of gathering data about persons who are alleged to have been involved, in one way or another, in fraud, and of preventing them from creating or managing a company anywhere in Europe. On whose behalf? In accordance with a judicial, administrative or purely arbitrary decision? Taken at what level? On the basis of which powers enshrined – or not, as the case may be – in the Treaties?
The supremacy of decisions at European level, the self-conferral of quasi-penal powers, the European Commission’s overblown executive role and more red tape for companies at a time when we are crowing about the Small Business Act for Europe –we find all of this unacceptable."@en1
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