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ABOUT US Organisation & Mission Members Staff Job opportunities What we do  • Beer and Society  • Technical Issues  • Fiscal Issues  • Communications  • Worldwide Brewing Alliance	Fiscal Issues - Taxation - Trade Distortions The Fiscal Issue Management Team addresses the issues of the European Fiscal Policy, covering mainly Taxation and Trade Distortions. The excise duty rates in the Member States differ widely which leads to unacceptable distortions of free trade for the consumer and for the industry as well as to fraud, smuggling, unrecorded consumption and unfair competition between citizens of the same countries. These special allowances break the principles of the single market. The European Brewing Industry faces distortions of competition between beer and wine and distortion of tax induced trade and investment. The Fiscal Committee pursues a removal of all tax induced distortions of demand, trade and competition The Fiscal Issue Management Team lobbies for the policy that beer excise rates in all Member States are reduced to the lowest possible level. Its areas of interest include any fiscal issue having a direct or indirect impact on the European Brewing Industry. It particularly comprises beer excise rates and VAT. By monitoring the developments at the European level with regard to changes in the EU tax policy, the Fiscal Committee collects and exchanges information on developments of national tax policies and excise rates as well as TVA rates. It pursues the policy of reducing excise rates to the lowest possible level in order to remove distortions of tax induced trade and investment, distortions of competition between wine and beer as well as the incentive for paper fraud and smuggling.velopments of national tax policies and excise rates as well as TVA rates.
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