If the EU, and/or any of its institutions, get their way towards forcing Malta to abandon, or change, its own freely, constitutionally, and independently decided and structured tax systems, then this country will not only have entered a new phase in its history, namely one of a totally neo-colonised state, but all future ministers of finance in this country will be obliged to increase internal taxes exponentially, and severely hampered in what both they and all other ministers can propose doing for the good of the Maltese people and nation.