In 2022, the greatest difference between expected value-added tax (VAT) and the actual amount collected in a European Union country was 30.6 percent in Romania. The EU country with the smallest VAT gap was in Cyprus, where the taxation authorities collected 0.7 percent more VAT revenues than they expected.
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