The tax discussion is moving to personal income taxes, and the world is waiting to hear the actual Republican proposal, due tomorrow (Thursday). With apologies to blog readers who know all this in ...

A value-added tax (VAT) is a fee that is assessed against businesses by a government at various points in the production of goods or services—usually any time a product is resold or value is added to ...

Here's how value-added tax works, what it is and how you can get a VAT refund if you shop while traveling. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

One of the most important pieces in the federal revenue picture is a consumption tax, William Gale told me today. That's makes him between the thousandth and ten-thousandth tax expert I know who says ...

Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers. Visit americanexpress.com to learn more. The idea of a value-added tax (VAT) is a foreign concept to most Americans. That puts us in the minority, ...

Another Tax Day has passed, and tens of millions of American citizens and corporations have filed returns showing they paid their fair share. Unfortunately, many did not. Consider that the “tax gap” — ...

Republican state Rep. Jay Dean of Longview recently proposed a bill to replace school maintenance and operations property taxes with a value-added tax. The news might sound like music to the ears of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Goulder covers developments in U.S. and international taxation. This article is based on a reader’s suggestion: Design a ...

Click here to view the full article as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. The VAT is an old idea in tax policy that, despite periodic consideration, has not been adopted in the United States.[1] The absence of a ...

The Scandinavian country has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices. By Jenny Gross With the country facing a ...

A snack company’s yearslong effort to protect the sanctity of its poppadom spuddered — er, sputtered — in a tax tribunal this month. By Ali Watkins A British tribunal considered how a slightly larger ...