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The Swedish Federation of Business Owners (Swedish Federation of Business Owners) is co-founder of the Association for Effective Business Transactions (www.betaltider.se). In dialogue with the Swedish Government and a number of representatives from large companies, we have worked on various proposals and solutions to shorten payment times in Sweden.

Filed in Swedish · English published by the European Commission

EuroCommerce stands by a culture of prompt payments in government-to-business and business-to-business transactions. A key differentiation must be drawn between late payments (which occur beyond the terms agreed by the parties) and business-to-business contractually agreed longer payment terms, which form part of the economic decision of the parties and reflect the financing needs of both sellers and buyers.

EuroCommerce stands by a culture of prompt payment. Late payments (which negatively affect creditors liquidity management) should not be confused with negotiations of payment terms agreed upon between contracting parties. Removing the possibility to negotiate payment terms restricts freedom of contract and will have numerous adverse effects that are not considered in the Impact Assessment of the European Commission.

EuroCommerce, representing the European retail and wholesale sector, are pleased to provide detail comments on the proposal on VAT in the digital age in the attached document. EuroCommerce welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the VAT in the Digital Age proposal of the European Commission.

The Federation of Swedish Business Owners (Företagarna) wishes to give the following feedback regarding the proposed Council regulation. We acknowledge the need for further harmonised rules regarding VAT in cross-border trade in the single market. The most central aspects of the sharing of information between member states' authorities are necessary to facilitiate simplified VAT handling.