Although the EU VAT purports to be a tax on consumption, some categories of “free consumption” are not taxed. Such types of consumption are frequent in the digital economy (Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc) , as well as in the traditional brick-and-mortar economy. This raises the following question: is VAT failing in its objective to tax consumption?
Source Christian Amand
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