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Do you know the arcane details of current funding through VAT?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 21st, 2009 at 08:20:23 AM EST
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Actually, I do to some extent. I know... it's perverse. The funding through the VAT is tracked directly to the countries (and in that sense it is impossible for the Commission to get what Turambar says is its desire: taxes that can't be tracked back).

Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden pay at a reduced rate, because they've been paying in too much and also wanted a rebate of their own. Otherwise, I don't remember the exact rate, has to be around 0.3 percentage points out of the national VAT or so.

It's still only a small part of the funding. The majority are direct transfers.

Another small part comes out of the tariffs at the common border (of which the Member States get to keep a quarter, if memory serves...)

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:48:05 AM EST
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