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A New Approach to Taxing Financial Intermediation Services Under a Value Added Tax

By Howell H Zee

July 1, 2004

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Howell H Zee. A New Approach to Taxing Financial Intermediation Services Under a Value Added Tax, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

This paper contains a proposal (referred to as the "modified reverse-charging" approach) to tax financial intermediation services under a VAT. At the heart of the proposal is the application of a reverse charge that shifts the collection of the VAT on deposit interest from depositors to banks, in conjunction with the establishment of a franking mechanism managed by banks that effectively transfers the VAT so collected to borrowers as credits against the VAT on their loan interest on a transaction-by-transaction basis. The proposal is fully compatible with an invoice-credit VAT and is capable of delivering the correct theoretical result at minimal administrative costs.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Financial services, Loans, Money, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Credit, Credit chain, Financial sector, Financial services, Global, Invoice, Invoice-credit VAT, Loan, Loans, Tax, Value-added tax, VAT, VAT burden, VAT invoice, VAT rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    19

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/119

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1192004

  • ISBN:

    9781451854206

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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