title: National retail sales tax
text: # National retail sales tax
  
  A national retail sales tax (NRST) is a type of retail sales tax levied on a national level, a sales tax levied on retail sales.
  
  Taxes and proposals for such taxes include:
  
  * FairTax (U.S.A.), a proposal to replace most existing nationally levied taxes with a single retail sales tax
  * nationally levied consumer value-added tax (VAT)
     * Value-added tax (United Kingdom)
  * nationally levied consumer goods and services tax (GST)
     * Goods and Services Tax (Australia)
     * Goods and Services Tax (Canada)
     * Goods and Services Tax (Hong Kong)
     * Goods and Services Tax (New Zealand)
     * Goods and Services Tax (Singapore)
  