Fwd: White House exploring VAT (Washington Post)
[{"sender": "Richard Kahn", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "4/4/2017 5:28:21 PM", "subject": "Fwd: White House exploring VAT (Washington Post)", "body": ""}, {"sender": "\"Ens, Amanda\"", "recipients": ["\"Rich Kahn\""], "timestamp": "April 4, 2017 at 1:26:22 PM EDT", "subject": "White House exploring VAT (Washington Post)", "body": "David Woo just sent this — please let me know if you'd like an update on his Washington/market views \nMore sign that VAT is making its way into the discussion.... \nAs you all know, I have been arguing that VAT make tremendous economic sense \nA VAT has all the virtues of a BAT without any of its drawbacks \nThe fact that this is being discussed makes me think that we are getting to a more serious stage of the negotiation over \ntax reform \nThis news is bullish for Trump trades, at least for the medium-term \nWhite House explores two new tax ideas — a value-added tax and carbon tax — as leading proposal to raise revenue \nfalters \nWashington Post \nApril 4 \nBy Damian Paletta and Max Ehrenfreund \nPresident Trump's administration is exploring the creation of two controversial new taxes — a value-added tax and a \ncarbon tax — as part of a broad overhaul of the tax code, according to an administration official and one other person \nbriefed on the process."}]