[NYCslicker]

Are you unable to comprehend basic English?

VAT = on each level of “value added” production

999 = not on each level of “value added” production

What do you not understand?

[gogogodzilla]

If the 9-9-9 sales tax is a consumption tax... then would it not stand to reason that any time any person or business bought something, they would be charged the 9% tax on it?

So if a bakery buys wheat from a wholesaler, then the purchase of the wheat would be taxed at 9% plus whatever state taxes.

And then, once the bakery bakes whatever they want with the wheat, the customer would then pay 9% on the finished product.

I don’t see how that’s any different than a VAT.