Brussels, 09/05/2011 (Agence Europe) -EU Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta made the opening address at a European Commission conference on 6 May in Milan on a Green Paper on the future of VAT in the EU. He set out the following ideas - charging VAT on a larger group of goods and services rather than increasing the rate of VAT, ensuring more VAT is collected without penalising consumers, improving cooperation among tax authorities, making the most of tax collection systems and tax...