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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9116

25 January 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Laborious negotiations over cut-rate VAT - New Member States want equal treatment

Brussels, 24/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - As we were going to press, the ECOFIN Council had not reached a decision about whether to extend until 31 December 2010 the option for Member States that so desire to levy cut-rate VAT on labour intensive services listed in Annex K to the Sixth VAT Directive, which ran out on 31 December 2005. The talks were making slow progress because of various new Member States and the fact unanimous agreement is required. The problems had shifted from solely...

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