Taxation is done by the individual member states… for now.
Due to the creation of EU debt first for COVID, then for Ukraine the EU is going to need some way of paying it back sooner or later. Expect to see some Europeans lose their shit over the next decade at the inevitable federalization this will cause. Excellent news for federalists though.
Even if at some point the EU will be given the power of taxation (which I’m not yet seeing as an inevitability at this point), that doesn’t automatically mean that that power will be stripped from the individual member states.
We only need to look at the US as an example of a federation where both the federal government and the states have the power of taxation. It wouldn’t be unprecedented.
Taxation is done by the individual member states… for now.
Due to the creation of EU debt first for COVID, then for Ukraine the EU is going to need some way of paying it back sooner or later. Expect to see some Europeans lose their shit over the next decade at the inevitable federalization this will cause. Excellent news for federalists though.
Even if at some point the EU will be given the power of taxation (which I’m not yet seeing as an inevitability at this point), that doesn’t automatically mean that that power will be stripped from the individual member states.
We only need to look at the US as an example of a federation where both the federal government and the states have the power of taxation. It wouldn’t be unprecedented.
You’re 100% correct. I should have written “Taxation is only done by the individual member states”, quite right.