The role of the European Union
The EU has 27 member countries. Each has a different history, geography and culture – and each has its own tax arrangements.
Even though it is your country that collects tax and tackles tax fraud and tax evasion, the EU helps by making it easier for countries to cooperate and exchange information.
What happens if I don’t pay tax?
Imagine if everyone in your class was asked to give one of their favourite games to the school, for all the children to play with. If you gave one of your games, but others in your class didn’t, what would you think?
When everyone pays tax, everyone benefits.
Tax is the money gathered by the government and then redistributed to people living in the same city or country, or to build roads, schools, parks and places that we couldn’t do without. The amount gathered depends on how much money people have.
