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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9122

2 February 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Last chance meeting in Vienna to break reduced VAT rates deadlock

Brussels, 01/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - A crucial meeting between Chancellor Schüssel, the President of the Ecofin Council Karl-Heinz Grasser, Polish Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska and Commissioner Laslo Kovaks on reduced rates of value added tax (VAT) was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Vienna. The meeting was to lift the Polish veto on the agreement reached between 22, then 24, Member States to along with the extension of reduced VAT rates for certain labour-intensive services (see...

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