John Menadue ? Pearls and Irritations:
Paul Frijters. EU plans for VAT taxation are doomed to fail. Again.
11 October 2017
Article by Paul Frijters
Taxation is the potential downfall of the EU as an institution. The reason is that within the EU, several member states are making money from the tax evasion in other member states, a situation akin to having a wife slowly murdering her husband with poison. Unless this stops, a divorce becomes inevitable.