Meaning of zero-rate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To subject (a good) to no value-added tax when sold (but in which the supplier can still recover VAT attributable to it).
   transitive
2. To provide Internet access without financial cost under certain conditions, such as by permitting access to only certain websites, by subsidizing the service with advertising, or by exempting certain websites from data allowances.
   transitive

Examples

“For example, zero-rating machinery invites attempts to redesignate as such other machinery likely to be used by exempt traders.”

“We have to balance either zero-rating some of the goods or distributing them through spending. There are certain goods, however, that even if you zero-rated them, the poor still cannot afford them yet they are essential then we distribute them through spending.”

“Local firms have also been for long objected that Ugandan illegally introduced a 12 per cent inspection fee in 2017 for Kenya’s pharmaceutical exports while it zero-rated Uganda- made^([sic]) drugs.”

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