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VAT and the Taxable Person: A New Identity Crisis
January 5, 2015
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If tax is a foreign country, then VAT is a foreign country in a parallel universe where everything needs to be translated: transactions become “supplies”, and taxpayers become “taxable persons”. Of course, if it were simply a case of labels, no one would worry. Read more.


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