Several African countries have to increase their tax revenues to finance human and economic development. General consumption taxes, such as VATs, are the preferred instrument for doing so, because they are less detrimental to growth than income taxes. To enable their use, VAT design has to be...

Goods and services tax (GST) is a broad based and a single comprehensive tax levied at every stage of the production and distribution chain with applicable set-off in respect of the tax remitted at previous stages. It is basically a tax on final consumption integrates the union excise duties,...

In seinem Einführungsreferat betonte der Finanzminister von Rheinland-Pfalz, Gernot Mittler, dass sich die bei Inkrafttreten des geltenden Mehrwertsteuersystems verbreitete Auffassung, es handle sich um ein einfaches, praktikables und sich selbst kontrollierendes System, leider als irrig...