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Re:EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global m... by yc1010 on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:04AM (#8680240)
UK politicians (judging by recent headlines) also want to leave the EU, or at least threatening to do so if they don't get their way.

They might like/want X but they will have to negotiate and endup with X-Y or nothing, since negotiating something as important as VAT while threatening to leave the club is politically counterproductive.

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Re:EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global m... by derickr on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:12AM (#8680256)
I don't think this law was actually pushed for by the UK. And countries like Hungary where VAT is 27% have much more to gain by it.
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Re:EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global m... by glomph on Monday December 01, 2014 @07:44AM (#8680657)
They are only threatening because the election is coming up and an anti EU party got a surprising amount of votes in the EU election (still not that many in real terms).
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Re:EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global m... by jiggy2011 on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:33AM (#8680315)
Very few UK politicians want to leave the EU.
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