Amount of 'stealth taxes' to be levied on Britons under European Commission plans to generate one third of the EU budget by 2020 using direct taxation powers.
£682 million
The amount Brussels demanded British taxpayers stump up in extra contributions next year to meet a proposed £5.5 billion increase in spending.
£9.2 billion
Amount British taxpayers contributed directly to the EU in 2010.
£94 billion
The nine tenths of the EU's budget in 2009 that was “materially affected” by irregularities, projects that included the spending of more than £350,000 “improving the lifestyle and living standard of dogs” in Hungary. (Telegraph.)
NOW tell me that you believe in our membership of the wretched EU!
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