A report on Tax, Value-added tax and Indirect tax

Total revenue from direct and indirect taxes given as share of GDP in 2017
Map of countries and territories by their VAT status
Trends in Tax Structures in OECD Countries
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The tax collector's office, 1640
A Belgian VAT receipt
Tax structure per OECD country in 2018.
Substitution effect and income effect with a taxation on y good.
Without any tax
General government revenue, in % of GDP, from indirect taxes. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 0 % by tax revenue.
Budget's constraint shift after an introduction of a lump sum tax or a general tax on consumption or a proportional income tax.
With a 10% sales tax
The Laffer curve. In this case, the critical point is at a tax rate of 70%. Revenue increases until this peak, then it starts decreasing.
With a 10% VAT
General government revenue, in % of GDP, from social contributions. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 20% by social contributions revenue.
A supply-demand analysis of a taxed market
Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes. (Pyramid Age)
Standard VAT or sales tax rate
Public finance revenue from taxes in % of GDP. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 32% by tax revenue.
General government revenue, in % of GDP, from VAT. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 3% by tax revenue.
Diagram illustrating deadweight costs of taxes
EU VAT Tax Rates
4 May 2010 "Campaña no más IVA" in Spain
National VAT act as a tariff on imports and their exports are exempt from VAT (zero-rated).

A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally.

- Value-added tax

An indirect tax (such as sales tax, per unit tax, value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST), excise, consumption tax, tariff) is a tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of market price of the good or service purchased.

- Indirect tax

Taxes consist of direct or indirect taxes and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent.

- Tax

Since governments also resolve commercial disputes, especially in countries with common law, similar arguments are sometimes used to justify a sales tax or value added tax.

- Tax

Like other countries' sales and VAT, it is an indirect tax.

- Value-added tax
Total revenue from direct and indirect taxes given as share of GDP in 2017

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Federal Sales Taxes

Sales tax

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Federal Sales Taxes
Cash register receipt showing sales tax of 8.5%

A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.

A value-added tax (VAT) collected on goods and services is related to a sales tax.

Turnover tax, similar to a sales tax, but applied to intermediate and possibly capital goods as an indirect tax.