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First, a disclosure.
My late father, Sol Dubroff, spent much of his career as a tax systems architect, working for the U.S. Treasury and later for the IMF and other development agencies.
He absolutely detested the value added tax, or VAT. He accepted the fact that taxes are the price we pay for liberty and that, yes, governments impose taxes to achieve social, political and fiscal goals.
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