TALLINN - The Estonian Reform Party said that when it came to shaping the European tax plan, policymakers should turn to the forward-thinking example of Estonia rather than lean toward high taxes.
"Europe should follow the example of Estonia - where the corporate tax has been abolished on reinvested profit - and try to achieve higher economic growth, not establish high taxes in accordance with a socialist deal in order to maintain the state," Reformist Rein Lang said.
Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson stated that Nordic countries would not tolerate incoming East European nations who let their rich off lightly. "If they believe that we will levy high taxes in Sweden, Finland and Denmark and then send the money to Eastern Europe so that they can have an upper class that doesn't pay tax, that is not tenable."
