Re: Scottish Government plans to cut VAT rateT

[Jimk]

Hot pies?

[Ophelia]

Scottish Government plans to cut VAT rate

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I thought she was going to increase all taxes when the UK refused to give her a few billion £s more!

[GB]

I don't think she's planning to cut Scottish VAT independently. I think this proposal is for the whole of the UK to cut VAT.

[Andrew]

On what ?. Chocolate hobnobs ?.

[Andrew]

Do take-away deep-fried mars bars have a double rate of VAT ?

[Mike McLeod]

Irn Bru

[Ophelia]

I don't think she's planning to cut Scottish VAT independently. I think this proposal is for the whole of the UK to cut VAT.

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Ahh thanks, GB! That makes more sense!

[Ophelia]

don't care holding off any big purchase 'till then ......

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Good idea!

[GB]

The giant chocolate biscuits?

[Chris Hogg]

Bucky?

[spuorgelgoog]

It doesn't really. If she wants more money for public services (and more for Scotland from the UK Exchequer) what taxes does she want to put up to compensate for less VAT income?

Owain

[Smolley]

VAT is a good little earner, it's a tax that even the unemployed and visitors have to pay, so is unlikely to be got at.

[harry]

There'll be a lot of English shopping in Scotland then?

[spuorgelgoog]

The asylum seekers are paid for by the Home Office.

Anyway, I like having a Syrian cake shop, a Syrian restaurant, and a Syrian barbers.

Before the Syrian cake shop arrived, a Greggs fudge doughnut was the height of patisserie sophistication within 40 miles. Not that I'm knocking Greggs fudge doughnuts; in comparison to Greggs a Bayne's fudge doughnut is a cowpat topped with cuckoo-spit.

Owain

[Andrew]

With base rate at 0.1%, and inflation above base rate for over

10 years, that is happening every, slowly but surely. All part of a deliberate Treasury plan in 2009 to remove peoples savings,

- the ones who didn't pile into property and global stocks and shares that is.

[Andrew]

Only on luxuries like caravans, boats and yank tanks :-)

[Andrew]

You need some Vietnamese then, they do very good French bread and patisseries, apart from proper Vietnamese food.

[Andrew]

I think he prefers something liquid -

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8570359,-4.2597059,3a,84.1y,288.24h,96.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srtlKs_tpgHDHgqtZq1cMkg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Andrew]

VAT in scandinavia is between 23 and 25% !

It's a nice little earner for my neighbour who sold his MOT/repair shop

12 years ago but is still working, fixing cars on his drive, mostly for his long standing customers. He charges VAT on the retail price of parts, whihc is typically double the trade price, and just pockets it.

I suspect this practice is widespread.

His customers never seem to query the hand-written 'invoice', but then I'm always amazed at how many people fall for the scam where someone claiming to be a detective phones up and says they are trying to catch a fraudster at the bank and the target must withdraw £thousands in cash and hand it to an 'undercover detective' who will come to their house.

[alan_m]

Since when has the Home Office had any money of its own?