Logi

And a guillotine.

Fermented orc blood. Distilled for a really good time. There was a really good vintage out of the East recently.

Honestly, I don’t quite remember the details of what happens when you export an item. There won’t be a sale to collect VAT on, but you’ll have paid prices including VAT to your suppliers and there is something about tax credits. But at the end of the day it’s a conceptually more complex sales tax but when you’re working with it it’s simple enough.

No, things produced in-country are taxed bit by bit along the production and transport chain, each time someone takes the thing and “adds value” to it. It’s a value-added tax. Imported things are taxed all at once when imported. In the end it’s the same amount of tax.

You could say imports are subject to a sales tax exactly equal to the value-added tax on domestic products. Sort of.

Every time we complain about the pay walls and (demand that someone) paste the full article text then we’re making journalists beholden to people like Bezos. Wife and I used to subscribe to WaPo and NYT. Now it’s Wired and NYT.