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In der heutigen Ausgabe: Von der Leyen zur Lage der Union; Russische Drohnen über Polen; Lecornu neuer Premier in Frankreich; Paris und Berlin drängen auf Lukoil-Sanktionen; Dänemark sucht Kompromiss fürs 2040-Klimaziel; Neue Machtbalance zwischen Kommission und Parlament; Prag schickt Müll zurück nach Bayern.

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Responsibility for tax expenditures: In the United Kingdom (UK) government ministers introduce and amend tax reliefs including tax expenditures. They are a joint responsibility: HM Treasury takes strategic oversight while HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) administers them, including their monitoring, maintenance and evaluation.
Their number and scale: Tax expenditures in the United Kingdom result in a considerable release of fiscal resources by central government, little known and off-budget. The official estimated cost comes to 7.6 per cent of GDP in 2023-24, equivalent to a quarter of total tax revenue collected, although that cost is only based on the generally larger 107 of the 344 tax expenditures identified where costs were estimated for that year. Since 2020 significantly fuller listings of tax expenditures with many more estimated costs and explanations have been released annually.
Benchmarking: This term is not used in UK official documents. Tax expenditures are generally described as ‘non-structural’ tax reliefs as opposed to ‘structural’ ones. They make up about one-third of all acknowledged tax reliefs. Little is provided on the criteria for distinguishing the two, which do not appear to have greatly changed in many years. The classification is still not sufficiently clearly formulated, especially as it is acknowledged that many tax reliefs contain both structural and non-structural elements.
Transparency: Much more needs to be done to improve the UK’s transparency score with greater openness to public discussion and response given its current ranking of 39th out of 105 assessed countries, scoring 51.3 out of 100, in the Global Tax Expenditures Transparency Index (GTETI) (Redonda et al. 2024).
Complex landscape: The plans to provide a fuller accounting of tax expenditures have been markedly ambitious in relation to previous progress. While there has been substantial improvement, their actual implementation has been at best variable. On several issues fuller accounts have been provided in the latest reports. Further analysis needs to be carried out and published assessing the impact of tax expenditures and their interaction with other government interventions instead of keeping them within their own silo.
Evaluation challenges: It is not clear how much systematic evaluation is being carried out within the government. Recent reviews based on published guidelines are improving the extent and quality of fiscal data. The release of the evaluation plans is encouraging, as it signals that further work is likely in this area. The continuing contrast with the regular and published scrutiny of public spending is still emphasised by external analysts.
Distributional and behavioural impact: Regular reporting on the behavioural and distributional impacts of tax expenditures by HM Treasury or HMRC is limited. Official consideration of behavioural responses is generally confined to tackling issues of exploitation and abuse of tax expenditures, and there is less on examining and reporting on their value for money or the broader social, economic, environmental and political impact of reliefs and any options for change. Who gets what and how with what effect on the distribution of resources, individually and across society, is mostly neglected.
Fiscal Sustainability: There appears little government recognition of the fact that tax expenditures effectively have automatic priority because of their pre-distribution before the regular budgetary process allocating public spending. In consequence the government has not given sufficient attention to the workings of tax expenditures and the results of changes in uptake and costs in them. The effects of their interactions with public spending measures and their impacts on the overall economy have also been neglected.
Maintaining momentum for greater openness: How much the momentum for providing greater accountability and openness will be maintained amid continuing staffing cuts, resource constraints and competing policy priorities is unclear. Long-term resistance to opening up the area may not have disappeared. Progress may well depend on how much extra-governmental pressure is maintained by, for example, NAO, with its series of valuable scrutinising reports, and by parliamentary select committees, thinktanks and other groups and individuals. Meanwhile many bodies and groups that benefit from existing tax expenditures are active in defending them and opposing any reduction, especially behind the scenes.
Policy recommendations: There needs to be fuller and open recognition by HM Treasury and HMRC of tax expenditures as policy interventions that merit wider scrutiny and discussion just as other policy measures. Their conjunction with these policies also deserves closer examination.
The strong case for a regular tax expenditure budget is strengthened by the present lack of specific budgetary restraint on tax expenditures. This has resulted in limited control of costs and awareness of other effects, although the increased public accounting annually may now be leading to greater official awareness and closer management.
Such democratic accountability would help to increase knowledge and understanding among a wider and larger audience outside government. That could enable a clearer view of tax expenditures as instruments of policy and encourage a broader debate on their impacts and options for change.

Adrian Sinfield is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh.

Der umstrittene Platzabtausch bei Weltmeister McLaren in Monza bleibt noch einige Zeit das grosse Thema. Bei einer Blitz-Umfrage auf Blick-Online waren bei knapp 7000 Stimmen über 60 Prozent dafür, dass Piastri den 2. Platz nicht hätte abgeben müssen.

Schwere Zeiten – die Welt muss ohne Andres Ambühl klarkommen. Natürlich nur in den Stadien. Aber wie sah diese Welt aus, bevor «Büeli» beim HCD seine Karriere startete?

Die exklusive Reise versprach Michelin-Stern-Mahlzeiten und eine Feier am Nordpol. Der Trip, mit Kabinenpreisen zwischen 70'000 und 200'000 US-Dollar pro Person, ist aber kolossal gescheitert.

Nächste Woche an der IAA in München präsentiert Opel mit dem kleinen Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo grosses Autokino. Die atemberaubende Studie mit 800 Elektro-PS soll nach ihrer Premiere eine Hauptrolle im Videogame «Gran Turismo 7» spielen.

In Castro de Herville hätte die 16. Etappe der Vuelta enden sollen. Hätte – denn eine propalästinensische Demonstration macht den Organisatoren einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Der 33-jährige Surftrainer Jacob Mellish aus Edinburgh erlebt auf den Malediven einen Schockmoment. Als er wegen einer Welle von seinem Surfbrett fällt, findet er sich mitten in einem Hai-Schwarm wieder.

Am 28. September stimmt die Schweiz über das Bundesgesetz über den elektronischen Identitätsnachweis und andere elektronische Nachweise (E-ID-Gesetz) ab. Blick erklärt in diesem Video, worum es geht.

Macht uns die E-ID zu gläsernen Bürgern? Nein, sagt Bundesrat Beat Jans und erklärt, warum die E-ID vor Missbrauch schützt. Wie er als Justizminister gegen die Gewalt an Frauen vorgehen will und warum er mit seinen Töchtern lieber telefoniert als chattet.

The next meeting of the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 24 September 2025 from 9.00-12.30 and 14.30-18.30 and Thursday, 25 September 2025 from 9.00-12.30 in Brussels (room SPAAK 3C050).

Further information about the SEDE meeting can be found here.

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SEDE missions 2025:

• Norway - 27-30 May 2025
• Moldova and Ukraine - 14-17 April 2025
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 24-27 February 2025
• Israel and Palestine - 5-8 February 2025

SEDE missions 2024:

• United Kingdom - 28-30 October 2024
• Ukraine - 25-26 October 2024

SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2025
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Ahead of the State of the European Union plenary debate tomorrow morning, EP President, Roberta Metsola, will address the media and take questions.

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Tuesday 9 September

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Az Európai Bizottság szóvivője elítélte hétfőn a Jeruzsálemben elkövetett terrortámadást, amelyben öt ember életét vesztette és több mint tízen megsebesültek. Az incidens során két palesztin fegyveres nyitott tüzet egy autóbuszmegállóra és két, forgalmi dugóban várakozó buszra.

Ismét lezuhant drón darabjaira bukkantak Lengyelország keleti térségében, a Terespol városhoz közeli, Fehéroroszországgal közös határátkelő közelében - közölte hétfői sajtóértekezletén Agnieszka Kepka, a helyileg illetékes kerületi ügyészség szóvivője.

Szombat este összeütközött egy Volkswagen Golf és egy villamos Pozsonyban. Az autó utasa életét vesztette.

Kilencpontos, főként korlátozó intézkedéseket tartalmazó csomagot jelentett be Izraellel szemben a spanyol miniszterelnök hétfőn Madridban, hogy megpróbáljon nyomást gyakorolni az izraeli kormányra "a gázai népirtás megállítása érdekében".

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Hétfőn összeütközött egy kocsi és egy autóbusz a Galgóci járásban. Két személy könnyű sérüléseket szenvedett, az autó sofőrjét súlyos sérülésekkel mentőhelikopterrel szállították kórházba.