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We believe that the European Union has a very important role to play in levying such taxes on luxury products. We harmonise this with our amendment on the Political Platform (see Chapter 4, section d) for the European Union to have its own (explicit) taxing power, albeit specific and limited, to raise its own resources. We also believe that simpler taxation lessens the burden of governments to get track of all the taxes they levy.