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Guillaume Duval, essayist: "A “social VAT” would not help increase public revenue, but an increase in VAT would"

To restore public accounts and invest in future spending, for the climate or for the digital sector, it would be more useful to increase the value-added tax, believes the former editor-in-chief of "Alternatives économiques" Guillaume Duval, in an op-ed in "Le Monde".

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Guillaume Duval, essayist: "A “social VAT” would not help increase public revenue, but an increase in VAT would"

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