A VAT Has No Place in the American Tax Code

Messrs. Ryan and Pomerleau’s border-adjustment tax is akin to a gateway drug, writes Grover Norquist.
scmp.com

Mobile apps provide relief from headache of China’s new VAT codes

Accurately reproducing an 18-digit number is a tricky business. Mistakes can easily be made. That’s why tech-savvy consumers and merchants in mainland China are turning to mobile apps like WeChat and ...
The Washington Post

House listening sessions on spending, why have a three-page tax code and the VAT goes ...

APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES SET UP LISTING SESSIONS. Negotiators in the House and Senate are still working out the details for a long-term spending deal and a group of House appropriators are planning ...
The Hill

Volcker: Current tax code ‘exhausted’; VAT or carbon tax may be needed

An energy, carbon or value-added tax would be more efficient than income taxes and should be considered, Volcker said in Washington at a debt summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
The Fiscal Times

The VAT Isn’t the Only Idea for Reforming the Tax Code

While proposals to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts and to adopt a European-style value-added tax (VAT) have received considerable attention recently, a handful of other proposals have been ...