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- From: ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller)
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.004240.2285@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Keywords: GST
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:42:40 GMT
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- johnr@bohra.cpg.oz.au (John Reid) writes:
-
- >>It isn't. EC countries are perfectly free not to have a VAT. The
-
- >Sorry, but you are wrong. You are indeed required to have a VAT. The UK
- >were obliged to introduce one when they joined, and they didn't like doing
- >it, either.
-
- >The VAT is required, because it is connected with membership levies for the
- >EC in Brussels.
-
- I grew up in England and I was there when VAT was introduced. John may
- be right in saying that it's an EC requirement, but I don't recall
- hearing that argument used (either for or against VAT) at the time.
- Given the level of feeling about Europe, I feel confident that if the
- EC could have been blamed for VAt it would have been!
-
- Geoff Miller (g-miller@adfa.oz.au)
- Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy
-