The biggest tax story of the last third of the 20 th century was the value-added tax (VAT). From its tentative beginnings in the reform of the French production tax in the early 1950s, by August 2000 some form of VAT existed in at least 123 countries. Few fiscal innovations have been adopted so...

Canadian experience shows that a standard invoice-credit destination-based value added tax (VAT) can be successfully imposed at the subnational level of government. In fact, two different varieties of subnational VATs – the QST and the HST -- exist in Canada. The Quebec Sales Tax (QST) is...