70 years

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the VAT – the tax which represents the highest percentage in tax revenues for governments around the world. For some countries, it can be as high as 37% to 40% of the countries’ total yearly collection earnings.

However, this tax would never have existed if, on April 10^th 1954, a man in France named Maurice Lauré did not have the vision to create a tax that would not tax the turnover but the added value produced by companies. This vision has clearly been a huge success, so much so that the VAT has even been widely referred to as the “fiscal Grail”.

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