VAT increase

[briggie]

As well as fuel, shopping, etc don't forget you will be paying 2 1/2% more for:-

Electricity
Gas
Water
Oil for heating
Telephone
Internet
Mobile phones
New cars (Chance will be a fine thing, but also second hand cars)
Electrical items
Cd's DVD's
Alcohol, ciggies
Garage costs, servicing, MOT's
Clothing

Not sure about postage, prescriptions, road tax, rates, they will probably sneek up as well.

and what services /etc can we expect from the government for our extra expenditure ? ..... more hospitals perhaps .... better roads ? ..... more police ? ......:augie

 

[rustic]

and what services /etc can we expect from the government for our extra expenditure ? ..... more hospitals perhaps .... better roads ? ..... more police ? ......:augie

More unemployment, more cost cutting policies,

 

[Deleted account DD]

We've just bought some new furniture today. The shop reported manic trading and theyre open extended hours.

Put quite simply sales aside its not just us who have fitted in a years furniture shopping before the 4th.

If we went in tomorrow our little spree would have cost £112 more, all straight to the chancellor nothing at all for us.

bollocks to em :thumb2

 

[briggie]

vote briggie !

road tax scrapped and replaced with 5p on a litre of fuel

all unemployed persons will be given a maximum of 3 job offers ...

all persons attaining the age of 17 will be required to partake in national service for a period of 2 years ... no exceptions . or leave the country

 

[makeitfit]

road tax scrapped and replaced with 5p on a litre of fuel

all unemployed persons will be given a maximum of 3 job offers ...

all persons attaining the age of 17 will be required to partake in national service for a period of 2 years ... no exceptions . or leave the country

I'm not doing it........................send me to NZ please :sly

 

[geoffdown]

As well as fuel, shopping, etc don't forget you will be paying 2 1/2% more for:-

Electricity
Gas
Water
Oil for heating
Telephone
Internet
Mobile phones
New cars (Chance will be a fine thing, but also second hand cars)
Electrical items
Cd's DVD's
Alcohol, ciggies
Garage costs, servicing, MOT's
Clothing

Not sure about postage, prescriptions, road tax, rates, they will probably sneek up as well.

dont know bout gas but would Oil for heating go up by 2.5% as the vat on that is only 5% not 17.5% and they did not reduce the 5% band when they took off 2.5% of the 17.5% i thought it was on the 17.5% band but bet they will put the rest up as well:doh

 

[makeitfit]

I took a few tastey deposits before crimbo
That's Jan and some of Feb sorted :naughty
Invoice book still open at er an earlier date too :sly
Any one else need a pre vat increase kitchen ?

 

[Deleted account DD]

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/rate-rise-guidance.pdf

 

[solarman216]

:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

The rich get richer

The poor get poorer :banghead

The working class get screwed :banghead

The spongers keep laughing :banghead :banghead

Nothing better said, screw the system, I do, Rick, oh and for those interested the back today is a lot lot better, Rick:thumb2:thumb2

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

i'd say if theres something you want to buy but can wait, then do so as
in few weeks retailers will have to reduce prices to offset no one buying
cos vats gone up. certainly on things like tvs if computers.

when vat went down before we got all sort of odd prices, then things
settled and started getting the £xxx.99 type prices again.

certainly was rushing out for a new tv for sake of saving £10-15 in vat
increase, now when analog goes off in yorks this year might be another
matter, yep will buy a set top box lol

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

I had a letter from 3 about my dongle apparently due to the vat increase it's rising fomr £7.50 to £8 a month, i don't know who does their maths :nenau

 

[briggie]

Nothing better said, screw the system, I do, Rick, oh and for those interested the back today is a lot lot better, Rick:thumb2:thumb2

glad to hear your back is better .... off for a jog now rick ?

 

[solarman216]

glad to hear your back is better .... off for a jog now rick ?

not quite but not far away I am pleased to say, how much easier it is to think without pain, Rick

 

[harlowmaverick]

hope that back is fully better soon Rick :thumbs

 

[briggie]

not quite but not far away I am pleased to say, how much easier it is to think without pain, Rick

i wish i could think .... ive got a lipid test tomorrow morning and wasnt supposed to have anything to eat or drink ( except water ) after 10pm .... ive just had a cuppa coffee and half a dozen ginger nuts .... do you think they will notice ?

 

[solarman216]

hope that back is fully better soon Rick :thumbs

Since our chat this morning it has been a day of ups and downs, but at the end of the day more ups than down, feeling really good now, so see what tomorrow brings, Rick

 

[solarman216]

i wish i could think .... ive got a lipid test tomorrow morning and wasnt supposed to have anything to eat or drink ( except water ) after 10pm .... ive just had a cuppa coffee and half a dozen ginger nuts .... do you think they will notice ?

no cors they wont, Rick

 

[MudLifeCrisis]

half a dozen ginger nuts .... do you think they will notice ?

They'll definately notice them.





Best keep your trousers on ;O)

 

[lacroupade]

I took a few tastey deposits before crimbo
That's Jan and some of Feb sorted :naughty
Invoice book still open at er an earlier date too :sly
Any one else need a pre vat increase kitchen ?

Think it will have to be cos its only your deposits that will attract the old rate, remaining payment has to be at the new rate

And you can bet your bottom dollar that if they drop an inspection on you they will be looking at dates of payment, not just invoice dates.

But just to help:naughty, I'll link this thread to HMRC for you, to save you the trouble :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

But it highlights the problem for VAT registered traders, that the VAT increase usually hits them rather than anyone else (cos they either charge it and become uncompetitive, or, like the bishops girlfriend, just swallow it...) . Since starting this shop mullarkey and knowing the cost of landed goods from, say, China, I am absolutely stunned at the margins some companies, mostly the middlemen, are making....out of the factory, things cost peanuts....by the time they get to the retailer they are coconuts!

Planning to cut the out as soon as cash flow permits! Greedy ba5tard5!

 

[Peasgood]

and what services /etc can we expect from the government for our extra expenditure ? ..... more hospitals perhaps .... better roads ? ..... more police ? ......:augie

It is to try and help pay for what we have had, not what we will have.