While the FDP in terms of value-added tax cut deals now back-pedaling, the CSU is still very convinced of the measure. This has also Markus Ferber, head of the CSU group in the European Parliament (from 03.07.2010) in an interview radio in Germany reconfirmed. The main argument: the reduction of VAT for hotels is a question of European convergence. It means that profit almost everywhere in Europe hotels from a reduced VAT rate in Germany and should now be to reduce distortions of competition in Europe.
Ferber used in the interview the following formulation:
So I would ever point out that this is not about pork-barrel politics, but about in line with European conditions. From our neighbors are just the Danes the only country that does not provide for reduced VAT rate for hotel companies. So it is here to competitiveness in the international environment.
The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA) also supplies the same combined the best numbers in a pretty map of Europe.
is it all a competitive advantage? Well, surely it can only be one, if passed, the hotels, the tax reduction on to customers. Otherwise, the hotel room remains in the "international environment" as expensive and thus less attractive or unattractive as before. That there is a reduction in prices, but seems not to be in advance that what the hoteliers in had sense. So why then a further exemption in sales tax? This question of the policy reminds me of a quote from a Moby Dick adaptation?
"What is just What demon, which drives inscrutable beings and forces me against all the longing and love continue relentlessly, unceasingly, and forces me to deeds that my real innermost being would abhor? "The answer appears in the case of hotels to be: Lobby Dick!
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