VAT complexity scares investors - Tax expert

Abeku Guan Quansah, has admonished the government to eliminate the cascading effect of levies charged with the Value Added ...
International Monetary Fund

Tax Law Drafting Samples: VAT

The IMF Legal Department has prepared a series of four texts of value added taxes. All are credit-invoice VATs that are imposed on the destination principle, the kind used almost universally around ...
Wall Street Journal

There Is a Path, or Two, to a Simpler Tax Code

Regarding “Why Simpler Taxes Are So Complicated” (Exchange, March 16): Public policy would best be served by taxing consumption at the federal and state levels. The current mess should be replaced ...

Russia’s lawmakers approve hiking VAT tax to finance defense spending

Russian lawmakers on Wednesday approved in the first reading a bill which will raise the rate of value added tax (VAT) to ...
The Fiscal Times

Here’s Why Rand Paul’s VAT and Flat Tax Are Economy Killers

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul has proposed a 14.5 percent flat tax on all American individuals and businesses. He repeatedly claims his plan would "blow up the tax code" and "pull ...
standardmedia.co.ke

New exemptions dampen spirit of 2012 VAT rules

The huge number of tax exemptions proposed in the Finance Bill 2017, especially in the manufacturing sector has caused worries among key economists in the country. They fault the rationale behind the ...
The Business & Financial Times on MSN

VAT complexity scares investors

By Kingsley Webora TANKEH A Tax Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), Abeku Guan Quansah, has admonished government to ...