Turnover tax refers to a tax on the gross revenue of a business, while a VAT refers to a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.

营业税指的是对一个企业营业总收入所征收的税，而增值税指的是对商品税前价格和生产成本之间的差额征收的税。

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A more efficient tax would be a tax on producers of food, based on the difference between the cost of the ingredients before processing and the price for the finished product.

更有效的税收方式应是以食品成分在加工前的成本与食物成品价格之差为税基对食品生产商课税。

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Material costs have since increased, but Tata still hopes the price will be less than $3,000 before tax.

尽管后来原材料价格上涨，而塔塔公司仍希望这款车的税前价格不超过3千美元。

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Labour paid a heavy political price before the last election for proposing what the Conservatives dubbed a "death tax".

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The winding streets of Paris' northeast have been the home to bars, restaurants and guinguettes - open air dancehalls - since the early 19th Century, when Belleville and the neighbouring village of Menilmontant sat just outside the city tax limits, and drew the working classes for some cut-price going hard before going home to their workshops and factories.

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