🇪🇺 €61 billion.

This is the amount of value-added tax (VAT) revenues lost in the in 2021 mainly to fraud, evasion, non-fraudulent bankruptcies, miscalculations and financial insolvencies.

Yet, it is an improvement from the €99 billion lost in 2020.

Lost VAT revenues can severely hamper governments' ability to finance essential public goods and services, including schools, hospitals, and transportation.

We will continue to sustain and amplify efforts towards reinforcing VAT compliance.

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__ZeD__

@EU_Commission as an italian, I'm ashaned

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skua

@EU_Commission

Nice contrast there between DE and IT.

GDP DE is roughly twice that of IT.
And the IT gap is roughly twice that of DE.

Does this tell us anything useful though?

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Dude Germo

@EU_Commission -146 million in the Netherlands.
When are we (the civilians) getting that back?

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Mariss

@EU_Commission And then there is NL, who illegally pays more VAT than they should?

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kainisenni

@EU_Commission Eyo what's going on in The Netherlands?

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ꜰₐᵇₛᵉ 🇺🇦

@EU_Commission Hmm .. wouldnt it be literally worth it fighting this with every option available?

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Mario

@EU_Commission this says a lot of every country and especially of their people (proud to be spanish in this graphic)

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Ken McCann

@EU_Commission Regarding the Netherlands:** **
"As was the case in the Netherlands, negative values can occur in Member States where non-compliance is already very low due to statistical and measurement inconsistencies."

taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/

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Andrew Thompson

@EU_Commission wow! Look at 🇮🇹
……and what’s going on with 🇳🇱?

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/@bovaz@mastodon.online

@EU_Commission Finally, a European statistics where Italy is in the lead.

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ikesau

@EU_Commission

I adjusted each of these values for 2021 GDP

Interactive chart here: observablehq.com/@ikesau/eu-20

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Daniel Blake

@EU_Commission Perhaps, rather than by country, you could chart it by company.
Amazon, Google…

Of course, there is a flip side to this inability to finance essential public goods and services etc - it also prevents the funding of wars.

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herbert

@EU_Commission Hard to believe. Agreed that Belgians are creative when it comes to tax evasion. But paying with card and getting a receipt has been commonplace for a long time. In Austria? Not so much. Many (many!) places take only cash, do not give receipts. I guess one can’t count what one can’t see.

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Alberto Mancini

@EU_Commission @phastidio quasi un quarto dell'intera EU, primato italiano ai massimi livelli

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GMate8 💙💛

@EU_Commission what the hell are these values? How did you measure? These are all just estimates, because they can't be measured. Also how can the Netherlands be -146?

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Klāvs Sedlenieks

@EU_Commission The way I read this infogram is that in the Netherlands citizens fraudulently overpay their VAT tax by 146 million. Is that so?

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Castileta

@EU_Commission It seems not credible the figure for Spain if it is compared to similar countries like Italy

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elCelio 🇪🇺

@EU_Commission Primi! Campioni d'Europa!
🇮🇹 🎊 🥳

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