Word: hendrickx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most other European countries already have one. But the VAT that Belgium introduced last year is the most complicated of all: it has four different rates, from 6% on food to 25% on liquor. Retailers angrily protest that the resulting paperwork is intolerable. Says Mrs. Maria Hendrickx, half of a husband and wife vegetable-selling team in Brussels: "My husband can buy vegetables in the market, but he can't fill in all those damned forms. He isn't clever enough." Another though unvoiced complaint of many shopkeepers: in Belgium, as in some other European nations, tax evasion...
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