Normally, it comes a year after budget payments, but with the surcharge deferred by nine months.
He said there were other possible sources of savings, including a much-resented annual rebate that Britain secured on its E.U. budget payments in 1985.
It will be harder to find wriggle room on pension cuts, given how much of the Greek budget payments to pensioners gobble up.
Without his noisy lies and distortions about immigration, EU budget payments, Turkey and the NHS, the Remainers might have won a better hearing.
He told reporters and diplomats that he would not have tied budget payments to a host of conditions, the most important being a change in dues.
Nicolas Sarkozy, when French finance minister last year, suggested cutting EU budget payments to new members that insisted on setting low tax rates.Investors, by contrast, love the new members for their low wages, high productivity and simple taxes.
Key policy-makers say the UK cannot be allowed the benefits of membership, such as participation in the single market, without accepting the responsibilities, such as budget payments and free movement (Switzerland and Norway accept both).
The report, which was financed by Mastercard, found that use of the cards is already widespread among English local authorities, with a quarter using them to issue personal budget payments to social care service-users.
David Cameron delivered his most embittered attack on the EU executive in Brussels on Friday, bluntly stating that Britain would not pay more than £1.7bn in top-up EU budget payments.
George Osborne will lead the charge against the levy at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on Friday, two weeks after the budget payments dispute erupted at a Brussels summit.
