An Analysis of South Africa's Value Added Tax

In this paper, the authors describe South Africa's value added tax (VAT), showing that (1) the VAT is mildly regressive, and (2) it is an effective source of government revenue, compared with other tax instruments in South Africa. They evaluate the VAT in the context of other distortions in the...

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Main Authors: Go, Delfin S., Kearney, Marna, Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
OIL
TAX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/08/6090138/analysis-south-africas-value-added-tax
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8630