While it would
appear under the current rules, the district attorney can't make the comptroller pay back the tuition he accepted, Flaherty said he's still speaking with the ethics board chairman about the case, Wednesday.
There
appears to be a
current and very deliberate attempt to obfuscate what a VAT actually does (create a level field and back out taxes from exports, allowing recipient countries to impose their own taxes at consumption) and conflate it with protectionist measures such as straightforward tariffs or the proposed complex «border adjustability» tax, the latter explicitly prohibited
under WTO
rules precisely because it is not a level playing field (imports are taxed and exports are subsidized).