2 Amendments of Herbert REUL related to 2008/2237(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Rejects, however, the planned Directive on reduced VAT rates enabling Member States to apply reduced rates principally for locally supplied services, which are mainly provided by SMEs, since this would result in distortions of competition, further administrative burdens owing to demarcation problems and tax increases in other places;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Welcomes the measures proposed in the Small Business Act seeking to improve the supply of capital to SMEs; calls in particular, in the light of the financial crisis, for tried and tested state SME support programmes to be expanded and/or continued and for their support to be extended to financial intermediaries;