VIVAT, CVAT and All That: New Forms of Value-Added Tax for Federal Systems

Author: Mr. Michael Keen

Conventional wisdom has it that the value-added tax is not a suitable instrument for lower-level jurisdictions ('provinces') in a federal system. The problems that arise when it is so used have become a serious constraint on the development of the VAT-and closer economic integration-in Brazil, the EU, India and elsewhere. This paper describes and compares two recent proposals for forms of VAT intended to alleviate these difficulties: the VIVAT and the CVAT. Both enable the VAT chain to be preserved on inter-provincial trade without compromising the destination principle (allowing provinces to tax consumption at different rates) or introducing new scope for game-playing by the provinces. The key difference between them is that the CVAT requires sellers to discriminate between buyers located in different provinces of the federation, whereas VIVAT requires them to discriminate between registered and non-registered buyers. Where the balance of advantage between the two lies is not entirely obvious.

Volume/Issue: Volume 2000 Issue 083

Publication date: April 2000

ISBN: 9781451850536

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Business and Economics , Public Finance , Taxation - General , International Taxation , WP , VAT , tax , CVAT , administration , tax administration , Value added tax , Fiscal Federalism , VAT chain , CVAT tax , input tax , compensating VAT , CVAT rate , VAT logic , origin taxation , VAT number , VAT system , invoice-credit VAT , output tax , VAT status , Value-added tax , Tax administration core functions , Destination-based taxation , Administration in revenue administration , Sales tax

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Summary

Conventional wisdom has it that the value-added tax is not a suitable instrument for lower-level jurisdictions (‘provinces’) in a federal system. The problems that arise when it is so used have become a serious constraint on the development of the VAT—and closer economic integration—in Brazil, the EU, India and elsewhere. This paper describes and compares two recent proposals for forms of VAT intended to alleviate these difficulties: the VIVAT and the CVAT. Both enable the VAT chain to be preserved on inter-provincial trade without compromising the destination principle (allowing provinces to tax consumption at different rates) or introducing new scope for game-playing by the provinces. The key difference between them is that the CVAT requires sellers to discriminate between buyers located in different provinces of the federation, whereas VIVAT requires them to discriminate between registered and non-registered buyers. Where the balance of advantage between the two lies is not entirely obvious.