Won't happen 1. Countries like UK where the EU is constantly demonized in the tabloids (and hence in the mind of average person who reads this trash) would hav

Won't happen 1. Countries like UK where the EU is constantly demonized in the tabloids (and hence in the mind of average person who reads this trash) would have their populations screaming murder, hell there already strong calls to leave the EU 2. Countries like Ireland have increased VAT to insane levels as a revenue raising measure to pay for huge deficits run up by banking fiascos and huge welfare/healthcare commitments Anyways even the US has individual states setting their own sales taxes (or none) albeit at a quite lower average level than anywhere in EU What is needed is clear exemption EU wide for online businesses selling service (And maybe even goods) for lets say 10 years, to encourage competition There is a reason the likes of Amazon, Ebay etc have appeared in the US first