VAT Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/vat/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:18:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png VAT Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/vat/ 32 32 10.8 Billion Euros Missing On The French Budget https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:10:29 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/key-figures/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/ “If I have less money, I shouldn’t spend less but tax more”. That is exactly what the French President François Hollande and his Government are doing. Economic principles are obviously upside down. That is the result of socialist economic policies denying reality: the French budget was established on the assumption that taxpayers would continue to spend money as if there were no crisis and as if tax revenues were some kind of annuity. This error can be lethal for French taxpayers.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/feed/ 0 Value-Added Tax: No Easy Fix for the Deficit https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/value-added-tax-no-easy-fix-for-the-deficit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=value-added-tax-no-easy-fix-for-the-deficit https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/value-added-tax-no-easy-fix-for-the-deficit/#respond Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:24:42 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/value-added-tax-no-easy-fix-for-the-deficit/ There is a growing call by backers of bigger government for Congress to impose a value-added tax (VAT) on top of all the other taxes Americans already pay. A VAT is similar to a national retail sales tax but is collected at every stage of business production until its entire burden ultimately falls on the consumer.

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