Further it turns out Hungary and the Czech Republic are raising concerns with the treaty as well specifically with the idea for tax harmonization among EU members.

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But rather than openly argue for tax harmonization and other policies that would lead to higher taxes and a loss of fiscal sovereignty, they think they will have more luck expanding the power of government by employing demagoguery against the big, bad, multinational companies and small, low-tax jurisdictions.

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Brussels wants to be able to impose "harmonization" on member states so that relatively low-tax countries like Britain and Ireland will have to raise their levies to the suffocating levels of France and Germany.

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