VAT on food?

jumpy · 03-07-10, 10:03 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...T-on-food.html

I know this is supposedly only 'talk' about what to do to get more money into the economy... but ffs. Whatever these guys are smoking is a hell of a lot stronger than anything that I've got. Crack maybe? Whatever it is it's melting their brains with predictable alacrity.

UKers will remember this.

Respenus · 03-08-10, 03:19 AM

Wait, you don't pay VAT on food, newspapers, books and children's clothes? Here (in Slovenia), everything has a 20% VAT on it. Maybe it's less for food, yet I cannot remember right now. It is also true we have one of the highest tax rates in the world and a deficit worthy of Greece (no offence meant to any Greeks). Here they are cutting health care and social services and you get to pay more taxes. Where has the world come to? (Personally, I do not know if I meant the last sentence as serious or sarcastic. You make up your mind

).

ReFaN · 03-08-10, 05:04 AM

We got 20% Vat on Food in sweden aswell,

Skybird · 03-08-10, 05:43 AM

Germany, 19% VAT on everything, exceptions from this rule exist, most food just 7%, but drinks (not only alcoholic, but all types of drinks) 19% again.

The logic behind when what VAT is to be payed or not, often can not be recognised.

03-08-10, 07:24 AM

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The logic behind when what VAT is to be payed or not, often can not be recognised.

VAT is simple and eligibility is easily recognised. If people cannot recognise when it has to be paid or not, or when it has to be paid and then reclaimed then that is their own problem for letting themselves get ripped off.

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Here (in Slovenia), everything has a 20% VAT on it.

Sovenia like most of europe has two rates(some have more), they could have got more than two rates and got themselves total exemptions when they negotiated accession but they didn't bother.

03-08-10, 07:38 AM

Wat is the VAT on Vat 69?

03-07-10, 10:03 PM	#1
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	VAT on food? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...T-on-food.html I know this is supposedly only 'talk' about what to do to get more money into the economy... but ffs. Whatever these guys are smoking is a hell of a lot stronger than anything that I've got. Crack maybe? Whatever it is it's melting their brains with predictable alacrity. UKers will remember this. __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

03-08-10, 03:19 AM	#2
Respenus Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,169 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wait, you don't pay VAT on food, newspapers, books and children's clothes? Here (in Slovenia), everything has a 20% VAT on it. Maybe it's less for food, yet I cannot remember right now. It is also true we have one of the highest tax rates in the world and a deficit worthy of Greece (no offence meant to any Greeks). Here they are cutting health care and social services and you get to pay more taxes. Where has the world come to? (Personally, I do not know if I meant the last sentence as serious or sarcastic. You make up your mind ). __________________

03-08-10, 05:04 AM	#3
ReFaN Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 831 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	We got 20% Vat on Food in sweden aswell, __________________ Liverpool is my relegion, Anfield is my church. True believers never walk alone.

03-08-10, 05:43 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,616 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Germany, 19% VAT on everything, exceptions from this rule exist, most food just 7%, but drinks (not only alcoholic, but all types of drinks) 19% again. The logic behind when what VAT is to be payed or not, often can not be recognised. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

03-08-10, 07:38 AM	#6
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