the goods at the cheapest rate, with the difference in tax often resulting in altering who can produce the goods at the lowest rate. Open frontiers allow this to happen, but with this said are they to blame for it? VAT levels vary for numerous reasons from country to country. Each respected nation calculates it's own budget and adopts a tax policy which will allow it to fulfil its aims to its public. VAT is but a smaller piece of the puzzle that is national budgeting in Europe. Despite ever further integration, each nation still controls its own economy. It is no secret that across Europe various countries' econom
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