£40.8 million from VAT

M.Gauci

Mar 15th 2009, 09:10

L.Galea

With your latest write up - you have proved to all and sundry that your knowledge of Ireland and EU is zilc.
No further ado - this case is hopeless.

Robert Scullion

Mar 14th 2009, 16:46

@LGalea
I've nothing to hide.
All I did was point out if you wanted that information then contact the relevant authorities.
I'm sure that if youu did and was refused the information everyone in the country would know about it. However by failing to even invetigate I suspect this is just you're lazy way at blaming the EU for everything in your anti-EU rantings.

If you want the information ask for it, stop blaming other people just because you can't be bothered to do it.

L..Galea

Mar 14th 2009, 09:25

Robert Scullion "BIG BIG YAWN"
As a europhile, why do you find anything wrong with publishing the information so that joe the public would know it?
What do you, the government and the eu have to hide?
Typical of eu and its europhiles wanting to hide everything from the people.

M.Gauci
You mention Ireland of all places where they are having big trouble with the economy due to the eu one-size-fits-all policies?
The eu itself has now indirectly admitted that it free market economy has fallen flat on its face because it is now itself asking governments to intervene and aid ailing industries while previously state aid was anathema.
As for Malta benefiting from the eu this must be the joke of the year. We have paid more than we got from the eu while it destroyed our industries, caused mass unemployment, imposed VAT, is taking the interests on our foreign reserves which had to be transferred to the ECB, is taking all customs duties and levies instead of us ......

Robert Scullion

Mar 13th 2009, 18:49

@L.Galea *YAWN* If you really wanted to find out the information you could contact your MP, MEP, or the EU itself? However I'm sure you prefer just jumping up and down and making wild statements in your usual anti-EU waffle. Oh here you go ... they even have an office in Valletta http://valletta.adagio4.eu/view/en/Welcome/information_office.html

C.Camilleri

Mar 13th 2009, 17:16

@ l Galea I hope that Simon Busuttil will answer your question. As regards the amount of vat collected, i am sure that if there is more law enforcement to eradicate the blatant evasion especially,by those so called small retailers, the amount will be much more higher.

M.Gauci

Mar 13th 2009, 15:00

L.Galea, I am trying to show you that over-all we are net recievers. If you cannot accept that, than the world is flat. Take Ireland as an example - it was considered as the poor man of Europe, now it is one of the richest coutries since EU membership. I am sure they got there because they were contributing more than they were getting. Do I feel richer ? I have more opportunites for sure and as a country, we have advanced with the help of EU funds. Only available throught EU membership. You can at the end of the day, try and knitpick to find some EU devil and surely you will find one, however overall Malta has benefitted from EU membership with most of the advantages still to come for the next generation of Maltese. I wonder how, most of the Maltese, and that includes, the people who voted IVA and the others that made a U-Turn on EU are getting it all wrong and you are the one with the correct analysis of the EU. Or better...should I wonder or should you wonder that ?

L..Galea

Mar 13th 2009, 14:16

M.Gauci
Are we now richer because according to the government itself we have been contributing more to the eu than we are getting from it.

Last year the eu decided that as from 1 January this year our contribution (read tax) was to be €153,400 daily apart from all the customs duties and levies while we pay the customs officers to collect them, etc etc...

And I do not get my information from Super 1 radio Gauci.
I seek my information elsewhere.
And it is not Super 1 that is misleading the people but the PN Goebbels propaganda machine that has also misled the people all the time as people have and are constantly finding out.

And I ask again.
Why not publish the information for the general public to know it?
Is it because they will realize how much they have been taken for a ride and how much we are really paying the eu to destroy our country?

L..Galea

Mar 13th 2009, 12:39

anthony borg
Why is it not published?
Why does one have to write to the eu representation to get an answer if any?
What is there to hide from the people?

M.Gauci

Mar 13th 2009, 12:20

L.Galea
Depends what point you are trying to make. There will be a share of it to go to the EU (and maybe from other taxes as well). Isn't it expected ? We have to contribute to the EU as well, like other countries do. What you fail to mention is that over-all we are net-recievers from cohesion and regional funds. The minute we start contributing more than we recieve than that would mean that we are much richer as a country (not sure if this is over 75% of the EU average or the cohesion countries average).
You cannot keep on repeating what you hear from Super One radio, you know they are taking you for a ride when they tell you we are giving more than we recieve.

Yes there might be a small period when that happens, but over a longer period of time, this is not the case. This is all effected by projects, beaurocracy, efficiency of the local state authorties etc..but the upshot is the same - You Mr. Galea, as a Maltese person are getting more than giving to the EU in terms of funds.

anthony borg

Mar 13th 2009, 12:08

@ I. Galea it is simple to know just email the EU commission in Malta about your querry.

L..Galea

Mar 13th 2009, 10:02

How much from this sum is the eu's share?
Answers please.