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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9062

5 November 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Ministers to look at cut-rate VAT on Tuesday and decide on Hungary's excess budget deficit

Brussels, 04/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - The agenda for the 8 November ECOFIN Council will focus on taxation. The EU's economics and finance ministers will examine a compromise on cut-rate VAT unveiled by the British Presidency in September (see Europe 9045) and take note of progress in simplifying VAT forms for companies operating in more than one country. The idea mooted by the European Commission in November 2004 of setting up one-stop shops is included in these simplification measures (see...

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