value added tax

基本解释

Spain is reversing its fiscal stimulus by raising its main value-added tax rate next year.
西班牙正在通过增加其明年主要的价格附加税来恢复财政刺激。
It would introduce a new form of value-added tax while dramatically simplifying income taxes and scrapping corporate and sales taxes.
这样可以在当剧烈的简化税收和废除公司和个人税收时，引进一种新的形式的增值税。
European governments already rely more on consumption taxes than other rich countries do, and some are raising their rates of value-added tax.
欧洲各国要比其他富裕国家更多的依赖消费税，有些国家正准备提高增值税率。
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In addition, Hamas charges shopkeepers and consumers an additional value-added tax.

It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with higher value-added tax.
ECONOMIST: Germany and the euro
An alternative is a value-added tax, which all other OECD countries have (see article).
ECONOMIST: America's fiscal deficit
It may be a broad-based levy such as a Value-Added Tax or an energy tax.
FORBES: CBO Report Highlights America's Problem: The Income Tax Can't Fund The Government We Want