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09-08-2010, 11:40 PM
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1818-eu-tax-talk-slammed-by-bloom
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301611/Brussels-extraordinary-bid-tax-Britons-directly-EU-wide-charge.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/7935070/European-Union-pushes-for-right-to-levy-taxes-directly-on-British.html
The European Union is preparing an extraordinary plan to tax Britons directly as part of an EU-wide charge on bank transactions or air travel. With European governments under financial pressure officials in Brussels are looking for alternatives to finance a growing EU budget. But the move is likely to spark a furious backlash in Britain and drive a wedge in the Coalition between the Euro-skeptic Tories and pro-Europe Lib Dems. The vast majority of the current EU budget goes toward subsidising farming and funding structural projects such as road building, while four per cent pays for the EU's civil service in Brussels.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/09/article-1301611-097A0725000005DC-334_468x363.jpg
On Monday, Janusz Lewandowski, the European Union's commissioner in charge of the 140-billion euro (£116 billion) budget, said he would outline in September how a new EU tax might look. 'There are various options that would not affect the finance ministries and have a link to European policy like a financial transaction tax, CO2-emission auctions and an aviation scheme,' Lewandowski told Financial Times Deutschland newspaper. 'A transaction tax can bring in a big amount of money,' he said. 'The others will only contribute a smaller part to the 140 billion euros a year we are spending.' Amid public tensions over spending cuts and tax policy between the Coalition partners, a row over Europe presents another unwanted hurdle for Prime Minister David Cameron and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
Lib Dem activists are already alarmed by the collapse in the party's poll rating, which has fallen from almost 24 per cent at the election to 12 per cent in the latest survey. Many are also deeply uneasy at the sight of Lib Dem MPs serving as ministers and pushing through a Conservative-dominated agenda of public spending cuts. Within hours of the Euro-wide tax proposals being published, the German government had criticised the idea. 'The demand to introduce an EU tax contravenes the position underlined by the (German) government in its coalition agreement," a spokesman for the country's finance ministry said.'The government's reservations are about the instrument of an EU tax as such,' he said.http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1818-eu-tax-talk-slammed-by-bloom
UKIP's City spokesman Godfrey Bloom MEP today poured scorn on the European Commission for putting forward suggestions that there should be direct EU taxes."EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski seems to misunderstand where money comes from," said Bloom.
"He tells us that, 'If the EU had more of its own revenues, then transfers from national budgets could be reduced. I hear from several capitals, including important ones like Berlin, that they would like to reduce their contribution'."
"Money comes from people. Whether it goes to Brussels directly, or via the EU's membership fee doesn't really matter. People and companies will face higher bills. If as he says there is growing support for direct taxation it is only a PR scam to spare the blushes of national governments and the mountains of cash frittered away by the EU. Not, of course about reducing the burden on taxpayers.
"David Cameron must reject these proposals out of hand. There can be no other option.
"The British people must not be bamboozled out of their money by devious Eurocrats.
"Of course if the intention is to show 'EU TAX' on every transaction, that might be something to look at. Most people have no idea just how much of their money goes to Brussels."Where is our referendum now Mr Cameron?
While its a optional choice at the moment, they often do this where they bring something up, a fuss gets kicked up, it is then left and then is slid in at a later date either by regulations (force via the EU Commission) or national governments go behind the backs of voters and agree to it just as the Tories did with the European Investigation Order earlier this week. I know some Tories on here want to have faith in the party, but time and time again it has proven it is far from eurosceptic - in a way a EU wide tax would be a good thing provided it states 'EU TAX' above the bill you recieve, because once it starts directly and openly hitting peoples pockets maybe then people will wake up and realise what a total farse this is.
At a time when we are being made to cut public services and we are cash-strapped in general, what right do these overpaid lunatics of the asylum have to implement their ever more scheming ways to rob us blind? - answer; none, because none of them are elected. To put it simply, an unelected foreign man and his unelected mostly foreign cronies are demanding that you pay for their lavish organisation and lifestyles even though we are facing deep spending cuts at home.
Thoughts, should Cameron and the coalition respect and honour their pledge on referendums in relation to transfer of powers to Brussels?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301611/Brussels-extraordinary-bid-tax-Britons-directly-EU-wide-charge.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/7935070/European-Union-pushes-for-right-to-levy-taxes-directly-on-British.html
The European Union is preparing an extraordinary plan to tax Britons directly as part of an EU-wide charge on bank transactions or air travel. With European governments under financial pressure officials in Brussels are looking for alternatives to finance a growing EU budget. But the move is likely to spark a furious backlash in Britain and drive a wedge in the Coalition between the Euro-skeptic Tories and pro-Europe Lib Dems. The vast majority of the current EU budget goes toward subsidising farming and funding structural projects such as road building, while four per cent pays for the EU's civil service in Brussels.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/09/article-1301611-097A0725000005DC-334_468x363.jpg
On Monday, Janusz Lewandowski, the European Union's commissioner in charge of the 140-billion euro (£116 billion) budget, said he would outline in September how a new EU tax might look. 'There are various options that would not affect the finance ministries and have a link to European policy like a financial transaction tax, CO2-emission auctions and an aviation scheme,' Lewandowski told Financial Times Deutschland newspaper. 'A transaction tax can bring in a big amount of money,' he said. 'The others will only contribute a smaller part to the 140 billion euros a year we are spending.' Amid public tensions over spending cuts and tax policy between the Coalition partners, a row over Europe presents another unwanted hurdle for Prime Minister David Cameron and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
Lib Dem activists are already alarmed by the collapse in the party's poll rating, which has fallen from almost 24 per cent at the election to 12 per cent in the latest survey. Many are also deeply uneasy at the sight of Lib Dem MPs serving as ministers and pushing through a Conservative-dominated agenda of public spending cuts. Within hours of the Euro-wide tax proposals being published, the German government had criticised the idea. 'The demand to introduce an EU tax contravenes the position underlined by the (German) government in its coalition agreement," a spokesman for the country's finance ministry said.'The government's reservations are about the instrument of an EU tax as such,' he said.http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1818-eu-tax-talk-slammed-by-bloom
UKIP's City spokesman Godfrey Bloom MEP today poured scorn on the European Commission for putting forward suggestions that there should be direct EU taxes."EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski seems to misunderstand where money comes from," said Bloom.
"He tells us that, 'If the EU had more of its own revenues, then transfers from national budgets could be reduced. I hear from several capitals, including important ones like Berlin, that they would like to reduce their contribution'."
"Money comes from people. Whether it goes to Brussels directly, or via the EU's membership fee doesn't really matter. People and companies will face higher bills. If as he says there is growing support for direct taxation it is only a PR scam to spare the blushes of national governments and the mountains of cash frittered away by the EU. Not, of course about reducing the burden on taxpayers.
"David Cameron must reject these proposals out of hand. There can be no other option.
"The British people must not be bamboozled out of their money by devious Eurocrats.
"Of course if the intention is to show 'EU TAX' on every transaction, that might be something to look at. Most people have no idea just how much of their money goes to Brussels."Where is our referendum now Mr Cameron?
While its a optional choice at the moment, they often do this where they bring something up, a fuss gets kicked up, it is then left and then is slid in at a later date either by regulations (force via the EU Commission) or national governments go behind the backs of voters and agree to it just as the Tories did with the European Investigation Order earlier this week. I know some Tories on here want to have faith in the party, but time and time again it has proven it is far from eurosceptic - in a way a EU wide tax would be a good thing provided it states 'EU TAX' above the bill you recieve, because once it starts directly and openly hitting peoples pockets maybe then people will wake up and realise what a total farse this is.
At a time when we are being made to cut public services and we are cash-strapped in general, what right do these overpaid lunatics of the asylum have to implement their ever more scheming ways to rob us blind? - answer; none, because none of them are elected. To put it simply, an unelected foreign man and his unelected mostly foreign cronies are demanding that you pay for their lavish organisation and lifestyles even though we are facing deep spending cuts at home.
Thoughts, should Cameron and the coalition respect and honour their pledge on referendums in relation to transfer of powers to Brussels?