ZERO BASED BUDGET
is where the expenses or costs
of the prior year are not taken into consideration when establishing expense
or budgetary levels looking forward. Each expense category starts from
zero. All expenses or cost levels within the budget must be justified
or re-justified as being necessary; thus “zero-base”.
ZERO-RATED
denotes goods on which the
buyer pays no value-added tax although the seller can claim back any tax
he/she has paid.
ZERO-RATED SALES
is when a sale is
taxable at the rate of 0%, i.e. no sales tax. Some examples could be:
basic groceries, prescription drugs or certain medical devices.