VAT

See also: vat, vát, vât, våt, vật, -vat, and -vät

Translingual

Symbol

VAT

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

   Synonym: VA (alpha-2)

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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 translations at 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 (zh), 增值税 (zh) (zēngzhíshuì)

• Czech: DPH (cs)
• Danish: moms c
• Dutch: btw (nl)
• 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 (しょうひぜい, shōhizei)
• Latvian: PVN
• Lithuanian: PVM m
• Norwegian: moms (no), mva.
• Polish: VAT (pl) m, PTU m
• Portuguese: IVA (pt)
• 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

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English VAT.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vat/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: VAT

Proper noun

VAT m inan

1. VAT

   Synonym: podatek od towarów i usług

Declension

Declension of VAT

	singular
nominative	VAT
genitive	VAT-u
dative	VAT-u
accusative	VAT
instrumental	VAT-em
locative	Vacie
vocative	Vacie

or

Indeclinable.

Related terms

adjectives

• VAT-owski
• vatowski

 

nouns

• VAT-owiec
• vatowiec

 

Further reading

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