Have you never heard of over the fire place,the mantle piece is nice and chunky/wide and a mirror smaller than a mantle piece looks out of place, a couple of inches smaller is ok.
It's called VAT(Value Added Tax). :-( a two ounce pkt of tobacco in france or any othe european country outside the uk is about 2.25GBP(if that?) in the UK it's 10.50GBP...hows that for gov ripping us off.
Mirrors can be used for other things; to make a room appear bigger, for example.
They are familiar with the concept in NZ, but they call it GST, and it's only 12.5%
That's more due to Excise duty rather than VAT
Assuming good eyesight ...
But they tax more things than we do, like food.
VAT is ace! I don't buy anything!
-- Mike W
VAT is 'only' 17.5% and european countries all have it anyway. Tobacco and fuel in the UK have a 'special' tax called duty.
Not surprising. Kiwis are not large birds.......
Actually it's mainly duty. I think it's great. Should be at least triple that figure.
If everyone who smokes cuts down or stops due to these pub bans etc you do realise *your* taxes will go up to fund the reduction in duty? Then there's the cost to the puplic purse of all those who stop living longer...
At work we have a room containing about 180 mirrors, each 2 metres by 1 metre. People get lost in it every day.
When's the fair coming to Liverpool?
Similar flaw in the campaign to abolish or reduce Inheritance Tax. Just means that everyone (including those who would fall below the IHT threshold) will pay more direct or indirect tax during their lifetime and save less to pass on to their children.
MBQ
There's no way we're shifting it 20,000km. What amazes me is that nobody has broken any mirrors, and that someone decided to pay for the things in the first place if they are £200 each in the UK. Maybe we got a discount for quantity.
Where? What? Why? ;-)
But the money will be spent on something else instead which will probably be taxable. The same is true in reverse: when the Daily Mail gets hysterical about all the extra money that Gordon is getting because of higher oil prices, it forgets that less money is being spent elsewhere so other tax receipts fall.
Start living longer, you mean? The next lot can pay for them ...
Communal brothel?
No - stop (smoking) living longer... ;-)
Every time I 'hear' the banners advocating 'this will live the lives of n thousand people every year who die unnecessarily of $Cause*-related disease!", I have a mental image of a Pension-fund Actuary bursting through the door screaming 'Stop!".
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