It's amazing to me how much movement there has been towards VAT. There's this map on Wikipedia, made a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added

It's amazing to me how much movement there has been towards VAT. There's this map on Wikipedia, made a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#/media/File:Countries_with_VAT.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#/media/File:Co... I think it was accurate when it was created. But when I double-checked, I found that something like half the countries had created a VAT in the meantime!