| We are against VAT in all its forms, because it is an indirect tax that hits the working classes the hardest. |
| However, the whole matter of indirect tax liability is devilishly complex and difficult to understand. |
| But they make up for it with high rates of income tax, indirect tax, and social-security contributions. |
| We are confident that by stimulating retail activity across the country the exchequer would increase the direct and indirect tax take. |
| The study looked at the cumulative effects of changes to direct and indirect tax and cuts to services as well as social security benefits. |
| Clearly, lower taxes reinforced the spending splurge that generated the explosion in indirect tax receipts allowing taxes to be cut further. |
