Value added tax
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Value added tax (VAT) is similar to a sales tax. It is a tax on the estimated market value added to a product or material at each stage of its manufacture or distribution, ultimately passed on to the consumer.
Personal end-consumers of products and services cannot recover VAT on purchases, but businesses are able to recover VAT (input tax) on the products and services that they buy in order to produce further goods or services that will be sold to yet another business in the supply chain or directly to a final consumer.
In this way, the total tax levied at each stage in the economic chain of supply is a constant fraction of the value added by a business to its products, and most of the cost of collecting the tax is borne by business, rather than by the state.
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[edit] Reference
- Wikipedia VAT [1]
[edit] External links
- What is VAT? - a general overview from the European Commission
- Consumption Tax Act in Japan
- VAT & sales tax information from the Indian government
- UK VAT calculator
- ISO 9362:2009
- Bank Identifier Code SWIFT.com home page
- Official SWIFT search tool for bank names and Bank Identifier Codes
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