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Will Trump drive us to a better tax system?

Trump sees a value-added-tax applied to US imports as unfair. It makes no sense but does it mean it's worth questioning whether it's a tax we should get rid of anyway.

It’s likely that many countries around the world will face import tariffs in retaliation for imposing a value-added-tax on American goods sold in their own country - alongside other goods, taxed equally, that are not from America. As Steve puts it this week, “What tortured brain cells have communicated to other tortured brain cells to make a proposition…

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