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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9198

24 May 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Slight reduction in overall tax burden in 2004

Brussels, 23/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the annual report on the structure of taxation systems in the EU last week, Michel Aujean, Director of Analyses and Tax Policies at the European Commission, said, in the EU as a whole, the overall average tax burden had dropped by 0.2% in 2004, compared with 2003, to 39.3%. He pointed out that with economic growth twice as strong in 2004 as in 2003, the opposite should have happened. He said this modest fall in the tax burden, which...

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