value-added tax

noun
an excise tax based on the value added to a product at each stage of production or distribution: value added is arrived at by subtracting from the total value of the product at the end of each production or distibution stage the value of the goods bought at its inception. Abbreviation: VAT
Also called added-value tax.


Origin:
1930–35

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value-added tax
 
n
(in Britain) the full name for VAT

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Cultural Dictionary
value-added tax (VAT)

A tax on the value added to a product at each stage of its production, from raw materials to finished product. Widely employed in Europe, value-added taxes have the advantage (for governments) of raising revenue “invisibly,” that is, without appearing as taxes on the bill paid by the consumer.

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Example sentences
One other option would be a national value-added tax on goods.
Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer
  spending will fall sharply.
It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with
  higher value-added tax.
He wants a value-added tax, which would be applied to economic transactions
  from the wholesale to the retail level.
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