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Author: Knight Of The RoadKnight Of The Road Date: Aug 20, 2008 14:00
I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: Derek GeldardDerek Geldard Date: Aug 20, 2008 14:52
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:00:04 +0100, "Knight Of The Road"
hotmail.com> wrote:
>I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government £27.20 for the
>priviledge. What the fuck is that all about?
>
Barter is one hope for the future
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>We didn't ask for loads of people to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to fire
>rockets about, we didn't ask for the 2012 Olympics, we're not currently
>demanding ID cards.
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>And we never wanted that Dome thing either.
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>When is Gordon Brown going to realise that working-class people voted him in
>and working-class people are going to vote him out?
AFAICS nulabour have not learned one single thing from their setbacks.
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Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Aug 20, 2008 14:58
Derek Geldard wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:00:04 +0100, "Knight Of The Road"
> hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government £27.20 for the
>> priviledge. What the fuck is that all about?
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> Barter is one hope for the future
Alive and well and living all over the UK, in the form of LETS schemes
and the like.
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Aug 20, 2008 16:12
Knight Of The Road wrote:
> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: MortimerMortimer Date: Aug 20, 2008 16:21
"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OKGdnadfiflVOTHVnZ2dnUVZ8tXinZ2d@bt.com...> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Aug 20, 2008 16:27
Mortimer wrote:
> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:OKGdnadfiflVOTHVnZ2dnUVZ8tXinZ2d@bt.com...>> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Aug 20, 2008 16:28
Brimstone wrote:
> Mortimer wrote:
>> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:OKGdnadfiflVOTHVnZ2dnUVZ8tXinZ2d@bt.com...>>> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>>>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: MortimerMortimer Date: Aug 20, 2008 16:34
"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:C8ydnVyfeeE5NTHVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com...> Brimstone wrote:
>> Mortimer wrote:
>>> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:OKGdnadfiflVOTHVnZ2dnUVZ8tXinZ2d@bt.com...>>>> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>>>>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Aug 20, 2008 23:08
"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:
> PT was only paid by the consumer in the shop, not by everyone down the
> line paying it and claiming it back.
So what? VAT is only _paid_ by the consumer at the shop. The fact that
it's an interest-free loan from the government to the businesses in the
middle can actually be quite helpful.
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Date: Aug 21, 2008 00:57
"Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote in message
news:TcWdnSKvgtWINzHVnZ2dnUVZ8h6dnZ2d@posted.plusnet...
...> The thing that intrigues me about VAT is that it is *value added* yet when
> you buy something in a shop, you pay VAT on the *whole* purchase price.
> That implies that the object had no value when the shop bought it from
> their wholesaler and that the full purchase price constitutes value that
> the shop has added. The name "value added" would seem to imply that the
> customer should only pay VAT on the shop's margin - ie the difference
> between the prices that the shop buys and sells at, which is the value
> that the shop is adding. Or have I woefully missed the point somewhere?
The name indicates that, at each stage in the supply chain, the selling
price is greater than the buying price and the difference is the added
value. Therefore, each person in the supply chain ends up paying tax on the
value they have added to the goods, even if that is simply the shopkeeper's
mark-up. For the consumer, who is outside the supply chain, the tax is
equivalent to the old purchase tax, but is very much easier to understand.
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