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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
But if you simply import foreign made screws, then you bypass almost all of the layers of 'value added' taxing.

A VAT usually taxes imports and usually subtracts the tax on exported goods.

11 posted on 04/03/2016 8:01:50 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

In Europe, their residents/consumers pay VAT on top of the retail price.


12 posted on 04/03/2016 8:08:36 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Toddsterpatriot

‘A VAT usually taxes imports and usually subtracts the tax on exported goods.’

That would be smarter than what we do now.


39 posted on 04/03/2016 11:40:30 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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