does the u s impose a vat 
the only major economy without vat is the united states this is because each state in the u s has its own sales tax regime with some cities or counties additionally levying a sales tax rather than a federal sales tax a vat system in the u s would require agreement and close coordination among all 50 states in order to bring it about which is unlikely to happen the bottom linea value added tax is a common form of consumption tax that is due at every stage of a product s production from the sale of the raw materials to its final purchase by a consumer more than 170 countries worldwide including all of the countries in the european union levy a vat on goods and services 3 this system differs from a sales tax which is found in the united states in that a sales tax is only paid once by consumers at the point of sale 