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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10033

4 December 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
No headway on VAT on postal services

Brussels, 03/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - The ECOFIN Council failed on Wednesday 2 December, to come to unanimous agreement on the treatment of postal services with regard to value added tax (VAT) (see EUROPE 10027). “We will not take any decisions” in the conclusions to be adopted but “we will say that we need further discussion,” said Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg during the public debate on taxation matter, that is now essential since the Lisbon Treaty came into effect. These...

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