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Should the Federal Govt. implement a Value Added Tax (VAT)?
A consumption tax, more you consume more you pay, a fair tax?
Massive deficits – massive debt – the fairest tax of all
Value-added tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
State and Local Sales Tax Rates in 2014 | Tax Foundation
A consumption tax, more you consume more you pay, a fair tax?
Massive deficits – massive debt – the fairest tax of all
Value-added tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A value-added tax (VAT) or also General Sales tax (GST) is a form of consumption tax. From the perspective of the buyer, it is a tax on the purchase price. From that of the seller, it is a tax only on the value added to a product, material, or service, from an accounting point of view, by this stage of its manufacture or distribution. The manufacturer remits to the government the difference between these two amounts, and retains the rest for themselves to offset the taxes they had previously paid on the inputs
The value added to a product by or with a business is the sale price charged to its customer, minus the cost of materials and other taxable inputs. A VAT is like a sales tax in that ultimately only the end consumer is taxed. It differs from the sales tax in that, with the latter, the tax is collected and remitted to the government only once, at the point of purchase by the end consumer. With the VAT, collections, remittances to the government, and credits for taxes already paid occur each time a business in the supply chain purchases products.
State and Local Sales Tax Rates in 2014 | Tax Foundation
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