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Coordinating VATs between EU Member States

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Genser, Bernd

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The paper surveys coordination requirements for a final European VAT (short for viable integrated VAT) system. Using a set of criteria that can be identified from the EU VAT program for the single market, we analyze the potential superiority of the Commission's 1996 VAT proposal and four alternative VAT systems over the current transitional regime. We argue that the recent withdrawal of the 1996 VAT proposal is economically beneficial, as this VAT reform would have generated substantial costs for EU member states due to losses in national tax autonomy and adverse incentives in VAT collection and control. If the Commission adheres to its political desiderata, the VIVAT regime turns out to be a promising blueprint for the EU. If the Commission decides to lay aside its preference for compliance symmetry, and accepts that different treatment of domestic and cross-border supplies under the transitional VAT regime should not be regarded discriminatory in the Internal Market, then keeping and revising the transitional system should turn out to be a good VAT strategy for Europe. Copyright 2003 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Volume (Year): 10 (2003)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 735-52
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  1. Sijbren Cnossen, 1998. "Global Trends and Issues in Value Added Taxation," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 399-428, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Genser, Bernd, 1996. " A Generalized Equivalence Property of Mixed International VAT Regimes," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 98(2), pages 253-62, June.
  3. Richard Bird & Pierre-Pascal Gendron, 2000. "CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 7(6), pages 753-761, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Michael Keen, 2000. "VIVAT, CVAT, and All That - New Forms of Value-Added Tax for Federal Systems," IMF Working Papers 00/83, International Monetary Fund.
  5. Bernd Genser & Andreas Haufler & Peter Birch Soerensen, . "Indirect Taxation in an Integrated Europe. Is there a Way of Avoiding Trade Distortions Without Sacrificing National Tax Autonomy?," EPRU Working Paper Series 93-02, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
  6. Richard Bird & Pierre Gendron, 1998. "Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 429-442, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Ernst Verwaal & Sijbren Cnossen, 2002. "Europe's New Border Taxes," Journal of Common Market Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(2), pages 309-330, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Chang Woon Nam & Andrea Gebauer & Ruediger Parsche, 2003. "Is the Completion of EU Single Market Hindered by VAT Evasion?," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
  2. José Sánchez Maldonado & Salvador Gómez Sala, 2006. "The Reform of Indirect Taxation in Spain: VAT and Excise," International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0607, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. [Downloadable!]
  3. Sijbren Cnossen, 2003. "How Much Tax Coordination in the European Union?," Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Springer, vol. 10(6), pages 625-649, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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