There will indeed be many things that are priced 'plus VAT' that are going to be sold on, but equally many retailers are doing it purely in a misguided attempt to make their prices look better.
Virtually everything that is being sold by the sort of suppliers that we on this forum are interested in are not going to be sold on, and even if the buyers happened to be VAT registered they still couldn't, or shouldn't reclaim the VAT because the goods are for their own use.
It aall about trying to make the prices look better. Funny thing, the bigger the firm the less likely they are to do it. When MK first started they were plus VAT, but when they grew they dropped the practice.
The easy thing for any firm that reckoned they had a lot of overseas customers (remember, the EC doesn't count, they have to pay the VAT) would be to quote BOTH prices.
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