EU Finances: Taxpayers’ Association totally rejects EU taxes and calls for a limit on payments
The Taxpayers Association of Europe totally rejects the EU taxes demanded by the current President of the European Council, Wolfgang Schüssel. With its own income from taxes, this would encourage a general expansion in EU payments and a greater tax burden to be met by taxpayers. “This is the wrong path to take and could have drastic results. Payments cannot be increased continually and a restriction must finally be made,“ said the President of the Taxpayers Association of European, Rolf von Hohenhau. The Taxpayers’ Association also strongly criticizes the fact that the European Parliament threw out the payment limit already passed by the heads of nations and governments, and is instead demanding an increase in means.
The Taxpayers Association of European can see opportunities for making savings, primarily in the area of subsidies. For example, the agricultural and structural policies of the EU are still completely over-sized. Agricultural subsidies will cost the EU a total of € 371 billion by 2013. This means that 43 percent of the total planned financial structure will flow into the agricultural sector, which contributes only about 2 percent to the gross added value of the European Union.
”Instead of continually demanding a higher income and its own EU taxes, almost as a reflex, a ban on raising taxes should be embedded into the EU Constitution along with a restriction on payments," demanded von Hohenhau.
Brussels, 20.1.2006
The Taxpayers Association of Europe totally rejects the EU taxes demanded by the current President of the European Council, Wolfgang Schüssel. With its own income from taxes, this would encourage a general expansion in EU payments and a greater tax burden to be met by taxpayers. “This is the wrong path to take and could have drastic results. Payments cannot be increased continually and a restriction must finally be made,“ said the President of the Taxpayers Association of European, Rolf von Hohenhau. The Taxpayers’ Association also strongly criticizes the fact that the European Parliament threw out the payment limit already passed by the heads of nations and governments, and is instead demanding an increase in means.
The Taxpayers Association of European can see opportunities for making savings, primarily in the area of subsidies. For example, the agricultural and structural policies of the EU are still completely over-sized. Agricultural subsidies will cost the EU a total of € 371 billion by 2013. This means that 43 percent of the total planned financial structure will flow into the agricultural sector, which contributes only about 2 percent to the gross added value of the European Union.
”Instead of continually demanding a higher income and its own EU taxes, almost as a reflex, a ban on raising taxes should be embedded into the EU Constitution along with a restriction on payments," demanded von Hohenhau.
Brussels, 20.1.2006