These proposals, which will have to take account of the need to modernize the existing provisions, will relate to: . determination of the physical scope of the tax, including the precise de
finition of taxable transactions (uniform definition of the supply of goods, the concept of the supp
ly of services, the fact that the supplies are made for consideration, etc.); the precise determination of the territorial scope of the tax will be looked into in phase three; . definition of the concept of the taxable person for VAT purposes (which
...[+++] involves reviewing the VAT status of public bodies, the consequences of treatment as a non-taxable person, etc.); . determination of the taxable amount for taxable transactions; . exemptions: maintenance or abolition and, in any event, harmonization of exemptions, consequences for the right to deduct, etc.; . the right to deduct: conditions giving rise to and governing exercise of the right to deduct, procedures, harmonization of the non-deductibility of certain items of expenditure, deductible proportion (general proportion, actual application), i.e. the ratio of deductible transactions to non-deductible transactions (because exempt or outside the scope of the tax).