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10% of the smallest biz say they will CLOSE due to #EUVAT rules. Think that's wrong? Sign here bit.ly/EUVATpetition
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Only 4% of micro biz say they can comply with new #EUVAT rules in time. What do rest do? Close? Break the law? @pierremoscovici @DavidGauke
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the #EUVAT situation is wholly untenable, and will reduce the levels of tax paid if people quit their small businesses. @DavidGauke
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the EU has, for the last decade, been a hive of innovation at a micro/nano-biz level. That'll be severely curtailed by #EUVAT @DavidGauke
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who the hell is going to register for VAT and face the penalties for messing it over a coupla hundred quid of EU sales?? WTF? #EUVAT
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selling digital goods is a life-line for disabled/house-bound creatives. Especially post-austerity. Why destroy that? #EUVAT
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the #EUVAT was designed to stop the 'big fish' from hiding in Luxembourg's low tax haven. Instead, it's poisoned the water for everyone else
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…and will ultimately push everyone's sales towards those same big tax-dodging, ethically-bankrupt transnationals. *Slow hand clap* #EUVAT
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Am also deeply unconvinced that #EUVAT legislation meets the EU's founding principle of subsidiarity…cross-border policing of sole traders??
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Gave a speech at #LIKTA14 in Riga on the digital economy that is growing 7 x the rate of the rest of the economy bit.ly/1BAepHt