Chancellor George Osbourne - Taxpayers should eat cold food.

Posted by MIJ on Wed, 28/03/2012 - 14:28 in Blogs 677 3 comments | report

In a newspaper article published on 28 March 2012, the headlines read in bold saying "Want to avoid pasty tax ? Easy, but cold food, says chancellor (source Metro page 4, 28 March 2012).

It is the goverment that (we) the taxpayers voted to come to power. The same goverment is making us pay huge amount of taxes through various means due to their mistakes and over spending. The Goverment through the power granted by the parliament wants to recover losses through taxes from taxpayers in every which way it can lay its hands, whether it is right or wrong!.

Like Greggs and Subway many other high street bakery's will suffer should VAT be implemented on hot savoury foods. This is an abuse of power and it is unjustified and unreasonable.

I am prepared to take on this legal challenge and argue that taxpayes should not be paying VAT at all on hot foods or snacks when not consuming the food on the premises of the seller.

Why should the taxpayer have to pay VAT "again" on a food or a snack which is warmed to a consumable tempreture, especially when (a) VAT has been paid and accounted during supply of the final product (b) When the seller is paying VAT on the electricity it uses to warm the consumable food. So why should the Taxpayer be charged VAT twice when VAT has not been avoided at any stage of the process including when serving the product. This is surely not right and we the taxpayers must act to prevent such actions which are totally unreasonable !!!

Comments

Bit late aren't we?

Cloudcounter | Wed, 28/03/2012 - 22:09 | Permalink

You don't seem to be aware that VAT has been charged on the supply of hot take away food for a considerable time - I'd guess that it was the 1980s. That means that it's been charged on hot takeaway foods supplied by the likes of Greggs and Subway

You also don't seem to understand how VAT works - how is the customer being charged VAT twice? And are you aware hat if the seller pays VAT on electricity, the seller reclaims that VAT

Long on ranting, short on facts or logic.

You talk rubbish

MIJ | Thu, 29/03/2012 - 13:25 | Permalink

I know exactly what I am talking about and how the system works.

Do not need you who cannot spell to tell me. Thank you though!.

Congratulations MIJ

keelan | Fri, 30/03/2012 - 09:45 | Permalink

MIJ wrote:

I know exactly what I am talking about and how the system works.

Do not need you who cannot spell to tell me. Thank you though!.

Excellent, a very well reasoned rebuttal, well done!

tempreture....?

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