- Progressive VAT system involves wealthier individuals paying higher tax rates than those with lower incomes
- Traditional method of VAT involves exempting essential items from tax
- Challenges with classifying products for VAT exemptions lead to inefficiencies and distortions in competition
- Modern approach is to tax all supplies equally and provide welfare compensation to lower-income individuals
- Proposal suggests implementing a single-rate, broad-based VAT with real-time compensation for lower-income households to address regressivity in the tax system
Source: icaew.com
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