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.
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.