Fortification. 1  a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. 2  such an elevation together with the parapet.
A value-added tax (VAT) is a consumption tax levied on products at every point of sale where value has been added, starting from raw materials and going all the way to final retail purchase by a consumer. Ultimately, the consumer pays VAT; buyers earlier in the chain of production receive reimbursements for previous VAT taxes paid.
VAT translates as the value that is added to the goods or serves. In a basic example â you buy a pencil for R3.00 and sell it for R4.00, you have added value of R1.00. So, to calculate the revenue collected by SARS (which you have to pay to SARS for being a Vat Vendor) â it is the Vat on R1.00.t is levied in terms of the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991. The South African Value-Added Tax Act makes allowance for exemptions, exceptions, deductions and adjustments that effectively lower the VAT liability. VAT was imposed in 1991 at a statutory rate of 10%.