{"id":193446,"date":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193446\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","slug":"eu-eyes-higher-fees-on-us-british-tourists-to-repay-post-covid-debts-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193446\/","title":{"rendered":"EU eyes higher fees on US, British tourists to repay post-Covid debts \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another popular option being floated to raise revenue involves levying a \u20ac2 fee on billions of imported small parcels from Chinese retailers such as Shein and Temu. The idea,<strong> <\/strong>outlined <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/35198dd7-9f24-4c2c-9354-66d2bf091221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a Commission paper seen by POLITICO<\/a>, was endorsed by EU Trade Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tax options<\/p>\n<p>Faced with looming debt repayments, EU countries on Thursday discussed a variety of additional levies including those on digital and crypto firms, airline companies or the profits of multinationals.<\/p>\n<p>While these options would generate higher revenues than a traveler tax, they face stronger opposition as income and business taxes are usually levied at the national level. Besides, critics fear that raising wealth taxes would put off investors from Europe. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12804089-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6770625\"  \/>Another popular option being floated to raise revenue involves levying a \u20ac2 fee on billions of imported small parcels from Chinese retailers such as Shein and Temu. | Hannibal Hanschke\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf these new own resources are additional taxes on business \u2026 or taxes on aviation, it\u2019s not the way to do competitiveness in Europe,\u201d said Matthieu Louvot, the executive vice president\u00a0of Airbus, during a conference on the EU budget earlier this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raising the EU\u2019s entry fee is appealing because at \u20ac7 it is among the lowest in the world and the revenue is currently not being levied by states. To compare, the U.S. charges $21 to EU travelers, whereas the U.K. levies \u00a316.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission estimates the tax will impact up to 50.5 million travelers in 2027, but it did not forecast the revenue it expects to generate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cETIAS makes sense. You get into the European Union as a bloc, you need to pay something,\u201d said Pascal Saint-Amans, a tax expert and former Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development official, during the budget conference.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has criticized the move in the closed-doors meeting on Thursday, arguing that it could disincentivize travel to Europe, according to two EU diplomats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another popular option being floated to raise revenue involves levying a \u20ac2 fee on billions of imported small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,1306,802,1194,2437,6641,9216,2825,3677,2000,12922,299,5187,2915,474,1824,1216,78932,1200,1201,15,49,6863],"class_list":{"0":"post-193446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competitiveness","14":"tag-council-presidency","15":"tag-debt","16":"tag-digital","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-budget-mff","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-exclusive","22":"tag-finance","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-maros-sefcovic","25":"tag-own-resources","26":"tag-tax","27":"tag-trade","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-visas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702428836625796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}