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The letter shows how well Japanese CEO’s know their jobs and the partnership that exists between the Japanese Government and Business.The lack of preparation for the G20 by the U.K Government illustrated that they do not know what they are doing. It was a total embarrassment center stage to the World.The letter was exact. Certification, Type Approval, markings, Employee transfers, and ease of business are all subjects that should already been addressed in scope by the U.K Government.The letter also referenced VAT exemption and the Japanese EU trade agreement.http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdfNone of these matters have a discussion paper on the table for Industry to examine.What do the senior members of the Civil Service do? It obviously does not include preparing a Prime Minister for the announcement from the Japanese Government that they will support any Japanese company who want to leave the U.K.Theresa May nor any of her Cabinet have the experience to deal with this on their own. I would suggest Theresa May form an experienced ‘Business Group’ to monitor what it is the Civil Service and their highly paid advisers are actually doing.In my opinion the Head of the Civil Service should be sacked for incompetence. This is no time for ‘Yes Minister’. The midnight oil must be burned to ensure the disrespect displayed to the Japanese is dealt with by specific one on one answers.If the U.K Government and the 440,000 people employed in the U.K car industry think that right now the car manufacturers are not examining all their options then think again. The E.U will compete against the U.K for trade and that includes manufacturing locations.The U.K needs all the friend's can get. It will not maintain their business loyalty with complacency.The U.K Goverment needs to be very focused until overseas investors are satisfied that they will not incur additional costs because of Brexit.

As part of my job I have worked with sales and use tax for over 25 years, including applicability to leases (of aircraft), establishing exemptions (for repair work on an offshore drilling rig), and handling audits. As an employee of an EU-based company I have also had exposure to value-added tax (VAT) but generally rely on the advice of our VAT experts at the home office.VAT and sales tax are similar in many ways because they are indirect taxes imposed on transactions. However, they are two different taxes. Here is a brief overview on the similarities and differences between the two regimes.VAT is imposed on pretty much all transactions, both sales of tangible personal property (physical goods) and services. There are exceptions, but generally every type of good or service you might want to purchase is subject to the tax. Certain articles are exempt from VAT while others are “zero-rated,” which means technically subject to VAT albeit at a zero rate. Whether an article is exempt or zero-rated can have an impact on whether a business can recover VAT it pays on its inputs.VAT is imposed on all levels of production of a good or service. Each business in the chain of production pays VAT on everything it buys to produce its products (inputs), and in turn collects it on every product it sells (outputs). Since each business tries to make a profit the value of its outputs should exceed that of its inputs, and it should be a net collector of VAT. If that’s the case, when the business files its monthly VAT return it would pay over the excess of VAT collected over VAT paid.If for some reason a business pays more VAT than it collects, it usually receives a credit that can be applied on future VAT returns. In a few countries there can be a cash refund in such instances.At the end of the day the retail consumer is the ultimate payor of VAT because he pays VAT on all purchases but has no transactions in which he collects VAT.The VAT system was invented by the French in the 1950’s and is clever and efficient because by forcing all businesses to both pay and collect it, it requires all legitimate businesses to be part of the tax system. If you run a business that’s not part of the system you essentially become a retail consumer because you will only pay VAT and never collect it. This accounts for the near world-wide popularity of the VAT.Sales tax was introduced in the US at the state level in the 1930’s, and spread to most but not all states. Like VAT it is imposed on transactions, but only at the retail level (by the ultimate consumer of the product, not the manufacturer) and generally only on tangible personal property, although many states do tax some services. Note that leases of tangible personal property are treated as sales for sales tax purposes so that leases cannot provide a loophole to avoid the tax. If you’ve leased a car in a state with a sales tax you will see the sales tax on your monthly bill. The lessor provides an exemption certificate when it purchases property that it leases a consumers.Sales that are not made at the retail level are exempt from sales tax. This is usually for a sale made for resale, i.e., the purchaser intends later to re-sell the purchased article. The purchaser must provide a certificate to the seller to establish the exemption, which is kept on file by the seller for inspection in an audit.Sales tax is more complicated to comply with and administer than a VAT because it relies on an exemption certificate regime to ensure only the retail customer pays the tax. This leads to complex situations, for example, when a manufacturing company purchases production equipment. While a few states exempt such purchases since the equipment will be used to make taxable products, most states hold that the manufacturer is the actual consumer and must pay sales tax upon purchasing production equipment. Under a VAT regime this would be dealt with simply - the manufacturer would pay VAT on the equipment and collect VAT on sales of the products made by that equipment.In short, both VAT and sales tax are designed to allow governments to raise revenue on the sale of certain specified articles. Hence, a particular jurisdiction would only use one or the other. By drafting all businesses into collecting the tax, VAT regimes efficiently collect tax, and by making virtually all transactions taxable make its implementation somewhat more simple than is the case for sales tax (but don’t get me wrong, VAT can get really complicated too!). Sales tax is imposed on a smaller universe (tangible personal property and some services) and relies on an exemption system to be certain only the retail purchaser pays the tax.