“Real Lisbon” through the lenses of Stephen O’Regan and Rita Ansone By Kimberley Lestieux, in News, Lisbon · 14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Irish filmmaker Stephen O’Regan and Latvian photographer Rita Ansone started the “People of Lisbon” project nine months ago, telling the stories of “real” Lisboetas, that often underline the diversity of the capital’s residents.
Wearing his usual dark green “burglar” beanie as he likes to call it, I met Stephen O’Regan, creator of “People of Lisbon”, in a café downtown where we talked about his project between a few bites of banana bread and coffee. The filmmaker - even though he doesn’t know if he considers himself to be a filmmaker because he “doesn’t really know what that means” - makes videos each week, about a resident of the capita
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The 9 percent tax is available for certain goods that fall mainly within the categories of agricultural and utility items, while the 13 percent tax applies to other goods subject to the VAT like manufactured goods.
Taxable services provided by foreign entities or individuals in China are subject to 6 percent of VAT as before.
The import VAT can be calculated based on the following formula:
Import VAT = Composite Assessable Price × VAT Rate
= (Duty-Paid Price + Import Duty + Consumption Tax) × VAT Rate
= (Duty-Paid Price + Import Duty) / (1-Consumption Tax Rate) × VAT Rate
Consumption tax for imported goods
China’s consumption tax (CT) is imposed on companies and organizations who manufacture and import taxable products, process taxable products under consignment, or sell taxable products.