Cqbrazil  +  371737 Mon, 28 May 07 08:46 PM How do you refer to a person assigned by law the obligation of paying the tax (the act of paying the tax in the bank, as opposed to the person on who the payment falls indirectly)? For example, when you buy a shirt, the store pays the VAT although the customer is the one who supports the tax in the end of the story. Can you say call the store "the person with the responsibility to collect the tax"? Cqbrazil Joined on Mon, May 28 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil New Member 01

	Feebs11  +  371759 Mon, 28 May 07 10:19 PM  Cqbrazil wrote: How do you refer to a person assigned by law the obligation of paying the tax (the act of paying the tax in the bank, as opposed to the person on who the payment falls indirectly)? For example, when you buy a shirt, the store pays the VAT although the customer is the one who supports the tax in the end of the story. Can you say call the store "the person with the responsibility to collect the tax"? In Britain, retailers act as collectors of the VAT  which they then pass on to the Tax Office via their accounting systems. The customer is always the person who pays the VAT. I've never met any special term for this. Feebs11 Joined on Thu, Nov 23 2006 UK Veteran Member 5,015