I've received two more responses about VATMOSS and the EU VAT changes today. Neither these nor yesterday's other response had the same wealth of information at the one from Clare Moody, so I'll try to summarise them here.
Lord William Dartmouth of UKIP responded to say that the party is aware of the affects the changes will have on small businesses, and is lobbying for an above-zero Vat threshold for small businesses. Although he did say that the VAT threshold in the UK will disappear as part of the changes, which is at odds with the reply from Labour's Clare Moody I blogged about yesterday. He has also written to George Osborne and Vince Cable about the problems the changes will bring.
Consertative MEP Ashley Fox replied to say he is also concerned about the changes. Both he and Lord Dartmouth agree that the new rules will disuncentivise companies from trading with the EU. He has written to David Lidington (Minister of State for Europe) Matthew Hancock (Minister of State for Business and Enterprise) and Andrus Ansip (European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market), asking them to look into it as a matter of urgency.
I didn't know there was a European Commisioner for the Digital Single Market. Maybe I'll write to him next.
My local MP also wrote to me (by letter!) to say he's taken the issue up with George Osborne.
I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying they're not getting replies from their MEPs. Have I got a particularly good bunch?
If you'll be affected by the changes to the EU VAT rules and you haven't written to your representitives, please consider doing so. For the record, I emailed all of mine on Sunday and have four replies already. I found their details here. The site appears to be down at the moment - maybe from all the people looking up their MEPs? It's particularly important for people to get in touch with MEPs from all over Europe, because it needs to be flagged that this is causing an issue for businesses across the whole of the EU. We don't want anyone to be able to say they didn't know there was an issue to solve.
Lord William Dartmouth of UKIP responded to say that the party is aware of the affects the changes will have on small businesses, and is lobbying for an above-zero Vat threshold for small businesses. Although he did say that the VAT threshold in the UK will disappear as part of the changes, which is at odds with the reply from Labour's Clare Moody I blogged about yesterday. He has also written to George Osborne and Vince Cable about the problems the changes will bring.
Consertative MEP Ashley Fox replied to say he is also concerned about the changes. Both he and Lord Dartmouth agree that the new rules will disuncentivise companies from trading with the EU. He has written to David Lidington (Minister of State for Europe) Matthew Hancock (Minister of State for Business and Enterprise) and Andrus Ansip (European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market), asking them to look into it as a matter of urgency.
I didn't know there was a European Commisioner for the Digital Single Market. Maybe I'll write to him next.
My local MP also wrote to me (by letter!) to say he's taken the issue up with George Osborne.
I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying they're not getting replies from their MEPs. Have I got a particularly good bunch?
If you'll be affected by the changes to the EU VAT rules and you haven't written to your representitives, please consider doing so. For the record, I emailed all of mine on Sunday and have four replies already. I found their details here. The site appears to be down at the moment - maybe from all the people looking up their MEPs? It's particularly important for people to get in touch with MEPs from all over Europe, because it needs to be flagged that this is causing an issue for businesses across the whole of the EU. We don't want anyone to be able to say they didn't know there was an issue to solve.
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