President Donald Trump wants Europe to buy American stuff again. On Thursday, the president ordered economic officials to develop custom “reciprocal tariffs” for each of America’s trading partners ...

As I've noted before some of the beliefs about trade in the new administration are simply wrong. Not arguable, not simply focusing on a different aspect and not a matter of opinion. Just, you know, ...

Tom Wheelwright does not like tariffs. But he sees the current interest in tariffs on the part of the Trump administration partly as an attempt to correct the imbalance caused by value-added taxes ...

At last night’s GOP debate, Senator Marco Rubio accused Ted Cruz of sneaking a value-added tax (VAT) into his tax reform plan. RUBIO: Here is the one thing I'm not going to do. I'm not going to have ...

Here's how value-added tax works, what it is and how you can get a VAT refund if you shop while traveling. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - Many Americans are used to doing a little mental math in the grocery or retail store and adding a percentage onto the advertised price because of sales tax. In Germany, a 19% ...

While the United States imposes a retail sales tax, many countries across the globe impose a value-added tax. VAT is similar to the retail sales tax, but it is imposed at every stage of the production ...

A VAT, or a value-added tax, might as well be French for “big government.” Paul Ryan and Kyle Pomerleau’s proposal for a destination-based cash-flow tax as “A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs ...