And in the end it will be added onto the final retail cost of the item which in turn makes it a national sales tax .The Achilles Heel of the VAT is that it isn't added to a product one time. "A Value-Added Tax (VAT) is a consumption tax assessed on the value added in each production stage of a good or service." What is a Value-Added Tax (VAT)?
The idea of a national sales tax as a replacement for current revenue streams comes up every few years but in the end it is discovered that it would be a complex, cumbersome hard to enforce system with the issue of what to tax, what not to tax, the manner of taxation the rate of taxation etc .etc something that would drag on and on in the courts delaying final implementation of the tax plan for God knows how many years.