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Re: Lego prices?
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:39:42 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> "Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Nick Kappatos wrote:
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> > To cut a long story short, VAT is not meant to fund healthcare.
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> True, it is a tax used for all kinds of expenditures.
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> > VAT is used for "financing" the EU
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> That's not true. The EU gets a cut from VAT, but only a small part.
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> I found figures for Germany in 1998 where the amount transfered to
> EU is about 20% of the total of VAT, and this probably includes
> also a share from other taxes. How they arrive at this amount is
> not made explicit, it seems to be very complicated and maybe based
> on negotiations.
"Small" in Germany is "big" in our context. A more significant portion of our
VAT goes to Brussels, the fact that it later comes back notwithstanding.
> > and is redistributed in the form of (mainly) agricultural subsidies,
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> I'm all in favour of EU, but its agricultural policy makes me angry.
You can sentence that in the plural. If I once thought agricultural subsidies
were a strategic need, now I realize how they have become an endless pit in most
cases...
Pedro
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| (...) True, it is a tax used for all kinds of expenditures. (...) That's not true. The EU gets a cut from VAT, but only a small part. I found figures for Germany in 1998 where the amount transfered to EU is about 20% of the total of VAT, and this (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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