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dcterms:Date	"2011-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The future of VAT (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111013.3.4-014-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Haglund2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2012-07-04)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2012-07-04)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; PECH (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (2009-07-14--2012-07-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank our rapporteur, who has done a sterling job. This is an excellent report. I am sure our shadow rapporteur, who, for practical reasons, is speaking after me today, will be able to come back to the group’s overall view, but this report really is very good. I would like to take the opportunity to bring up the question of VAT exemption for non-profit making organisations, which is something that we have already debated here in the European Parliament. Commissioner, you will remember, I am sure, that some of us expressed concerns about this when you visited our committee in Strasbourg a few months ago. At that time, you were not particularly keen on the prospect of a VAT exemption for non-profit making organisations. We in Parliament did not think this was necessarily the best response and you may have noticed that I and a number of colleagues have succeeded in including an excellent passage on this matter in this report, which is something I welcome. It seems a little ironic that, during the European Year of Volunteering, the Commission is attacking Member States whose taxation systems include VAT exemption. I am referring here to the infringement proceedings that the Commission has initiated against Sweden and other Member States. This is politically unacceptable, and I am pleased that a very clear majority in the European Parliament also rejected this in the report we are debating today, which is something that the Commission ought to take note of as it takes these matters further. Otherwise, I have to say that the report is very good, as I said, and I am pleased that we are getting to grips with the question of fiscal fraud, in particular, this being a major problem in many quarters and something that we really must be able to get to grips with, among other things, in order to increase tax revenue, which we may have need of during the current economic crisis. Last but not least, I think that it might be worth mentioning that VAT is a good example of the fact that we can coordinate tax in Europe, something that we ought to do in other areas of taxation, too, and in that respect, it is good that cooperation on VAT is continuing at European level."@en1
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