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9 - Zero-Rating, Exemptions, and Exempt Entities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

Alan Schenk
Affiliation:
Wayne State University School of Law
Victor Thuronyi
Affiliation:
Duke University School of Law
Wei Cui
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

Introduction

This chapter covers exemptions and zero-rating. As discussed in more detail in Chapter 2, an exemption may be an “item” exemption limited to particular supplies of goods or services or an “entity” exemption applicable to all or most supplies by a particular kind of entity. Zero-rating generally is provided for exports of goods (regardless of the nature of the goods exported) and exports of some services. In the case of supplies by a unit of government or nonprofit organization, an exemption may be provided for all supplies, restricted to certain supplies on the basis of the nature of the goods or services supplied, or provided for all supplies except those that compete with the private sector.

The next two parts of this chapter cover zero-rating and exemptions, with attention focused on the complexity resulting from borderline cases involving “item” exemptions or “item” zero-rating. Sections IV and V discuss cases in which two or more items with different VAT consequences are bundled to obtain the desired tax treatment and A-B-C transactions in which an upstream supplier wants to integrate its supply with a downstream supply to obtain the VAT treatment of the downstream supply. Section VI of this chapter discusses some of the special VAT problems associated with the nonprofit and governmental sectors and proposals to include more services by these sectors in the VAT base.

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Value Added Tax
A Comparative Approach
, pp. 260 - 310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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