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"We must be uncompromising and intolerant in the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion. If we want to encourage growth, we cannot offset the deficit with further taxation of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The spectre of high unemployment is looming, and education and health are underfinanced. In my opinion, we should search for sources of finance in preventing massive tax evasion and tax fraud. I therefore expect the Commission and Council to accelerate initiatives to address this problem, because in my country too, the new government took over an economy from its predecessor where EUR 1.5 billion will be needed just for the consolidation of public funds. We need a further EUR 1.5 billion in order to meet the Maastricht criteria. At the same time, each year we are losing EUR 3 billion on tax evasion, of which EUR 2 billion is spent on VAT. Another estimated EUR 3 billion goes into the grey economy, and this is certainly money that, when eliminated, will not only ensure social peace, but will also be able to deliver growth very successfully. For this reason, I supported the draft proposal and amendments."@en1
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