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But like... Don't you think the home country(ies) taxed the production themselves at every stage themselves? And now it's coming into your country, and it's all taxed again. If it was made in your country, it would have been theoretically taxed at the final value once
So the lower value the import coming into the country, the lower the taxes on it. It's essentially a tax break for manufacturing in the country, no?
Honestly, I don't quite remember the details of what happens when you export an item. There won't be a sale to collect VAT on, but you'll have paid prices including VAT to your suppliers and there is something about tax credits. But at the end of the day it's a conceptually more complex sales tax but when you're working with it it's simple enough.
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Ok I did... Someone else told me
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, I'm not even opposed to the idea of a VAT or a country incentivizing local production, but I feel like I'm being led in circles trying to understand what it actually is
I can definitely see the issues sane, adult and usually well educated EU officials encountered when they were trying to explain VAT to a bunch of cretins Trump employed.