While that’s also true, the EU varies widely. The tax wedge is very low in places like Czechia or Lithuania and very high in France and Germany. If you add other European countries you get some of the lowest taxes on earth in places like the Isle of Man or Switzerland.
Having said that, the lack of proper integration is a huge problem, like imposing tarrifs of over 100% on ourselves.
The integrated taxes would be a very big step for the EEA, so would common company law and governance for these entities.
That said I think the headline proposal (single entity type and single registrar) is not important. The UK and (AFAIK) the US have few practical difficulties with multiple registrars and variations between jurisdictions.
The problem isn’t incorporation - it’s having accountants in your jurisdiction familiar with the structure. You can incorporate in the UK for £50 instantly but you might have trouble finding an accountant in Italy that is willing to sort your accounts out.
Estonian fiscal law doesn’t apply if your company operates from Croatia. The only reason you can’t do this in practice is because you’ll have a hard time finding a Croatian accountant willing to work with your Estonian company. That’s something EU-inc aims to address.
It is indeed. The arguments are so poor and obviously ideological. To give one example, it would necessarily imply that every war is an example of genocide.
Experts aren’t taking it seriously, but then again the UN has not been a serious organisation for as long as I can remember. Some serious scrutiny needs to be made of that organisation.
Genocide is a very particular crime, I’m not sure what the obsession with it is. It’s evident that there are examples of war crimes.
The first promoter of this is actually a Swedish social democrat who was a socialist a very long time ago. I guess she kept the knack for a nanny state.
Having said that, the lack of proper integration is a huge problem, like imposing tarrifs of over 100% on ourselves.