VAT

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vat"

Translingual

Symbol

VAT

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Vatican City.

   Synonym: VA (alpha-2)

English

Pronunciation

• (initialism) enPR: vē"-ā-tē', IPA^(key): /ˌviːeɪˈtiː/
• (acronym) enPR: văt, IPA^(key): /væt/
• Rhymes: -iː, -æt

Noun

VAT (uncountable)

1. (taxation) Initialism of value added tax.
2. Initialism of vigilance awareness training.

Synonyms

• GST

Translations

initialism for value-added tax — see also value added tax

• Afrikaans: BTW (af)
• Armenian: ԱԱՀ (hy) (AAH)
• Basque: BEZ (eu)
• Bulgarian: ДДС (DDS)
• Catalan: IVA (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 增值稅／增值税 (zh) (zēngzhíshuì)

• Czech: DPH (cs)
• Danish: moms c
• Dutch: btw (nl)
• Estonian: km (et)
• Finnish: ALV (fi)
• French: TVA (fr)
• Georgian: დღგ (dɣg)
• German: MWSt
• Greek: ΦΠΑ (el) (FPA)
• Hebrew: מע״מ
• Hungarian: áfa (hu)
• Icelandic: VSK, VASK
• Indonesian: PPN
• Italian: IVA (it)
• Japanese: 消費税 (ja) (しょうひぜい, shōhizei)
• Latvian: PVN
• Lithuanian: PVM m
• Norwegian: moms (no), mva.
• Polish: VAT (pl) m
• Portuguese: IVA (pt)
• Romanian: TVA
• Russian: НДС (ru) m (NDS)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ПДВ m

  Roman: PDV (sh) m

• Slovak: DPH
• Slovene: DDV (sl)
• Spanish: IVA (es) m, IGV m (Honduras, Peru)
• Swedish: moms (sv) c
• Turkish: KDV (tr)

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English VAT.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vat/

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• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: VAT
• Homophones: wat, Wat, WAT

Noun

VAT m inan (indeclinable, related adjective VAT-owski or vatowski)

1. VAT (value added tax)

   Synonym: podatek od towarów i usług

2. VAT (form that is used to account for value added tax)

Declension

Declension of VAT

	singular	plural
nominative	VAT	VAT-y
genitive	VAT-u	VAT-ów
dative	VAT-u	VAT-om
accusative	VAT	VAT-y
instrumental	VAT-em	VAT-ami
locative	Vacie	VAT-ach
vocative	Vacie	VAT-y

or

Indeclinable

Derived terms

nouns

• VAT-owiec
• vatowiec

 

Further reading

• VAT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• VAT in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• VAT in PWN's encyclopedia