I feel that they shouldn't have put the VAT as a blanket charge. For instance, it is not the wisest thing to tax the engines you expect to move the country's economy, like Farm inputs, IT sector and basic-goods. If you tax the farmers and the farmers feel they cannot be profitable as commercial producers, they will resort to subsistence production, reducing food available in the markets, reducing the community's buying power, reducing the community's investment power reducing country's economic growth, retarding the vision 2030 progress.
That is just one chain.....
I think the VAT was necessary, but doubt the lawmakers considered the effects of it's blanket application....were they hurrying to their break?