You see basically I buy food and there's not a lot of VAT in food and there's no VAT on newspapers and magazines.

你看我刚了买了些食品，食品是没有增值税的，同时报纸和杂志也没有增值税。

youdao

Then very controversially Descartes says, okay I've got one bit of certainty here but I'm thinking that I exist, can't I look at the VAT instance of certainty and draw a general rule from it.

接下来笛卡尔说的话就非常有争议了，我在此得到了一些肯定，但是我正在思考我的存在，我不能仅凭看到了容器这个确凿的例子，就从中描绘出一个普遍的规律。

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I had a chance to chat with her to find out why the future of fashion may lurk in her sugar VAT.

我有机会和她聊一下，了解为什么时尚的未来可能就潜伏在她的糖缸里。

youdao

Think about it: there isn't going to be another VAT rise and I don't expect to see another big rise in the price of petrol.

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After living in France for 12 years, I can tell you that VAT there at 19.6 percent led to an enormous moonlight economy.

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If I was told that Directgov had lost my data I could not exactly change to another VAT supplier.

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