Excluding VAT.............WTF?

[flyerncle]

Easy answer,We are English just bend over and let everyone shaft us, we love to stand in line and take all the crap thrown at us and just moan and accept it.

Make petrol £5 a liter we will still buy it, its time we stopped kissing every moaners backside and fight for ourselves and not someone elses wars.

[RAYLEE29]

I must say i do agree with you john,
Got the latest demon tweaks motorsport catalogue and checked the abismall prices of stuff in there and then took 5 mins to find out you have to add vat
its disgusting
quote the price you have to pay dont add things on later
the majority of us arent vat registered so make the catalogues inc vat
Ray

[shadowcaster]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

Easy answer,We are English just bend over and let everyone shaft us, we love to stand in line and take all the crap thrown at us and just moan and accept it.

Make petrol £5 a liter we will still buy it, its time we stopped kissing every moaners backside and fight for ourselves and not someone elses wars.

Hear Hear, however just what do we fight for and how do we do it.

[mr henderson]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

Easy answer,We are English just bend over and let everyone shaft us, we love to stand in line and take all the crap thrown at us and just moan and accept it.

Make petrol £5 a liter we will still buy it, its time we stopped kissing every moaners backside and fight for ourselves and not someone elses wars.

That seems more like an anti-government rant, where as I'm complaingin about the antics of various, mostly small, companies.

That petrol price thing that you raise, though, I'm not too sure about that. It seems to me that the price is based on the cost of oil, and tax. Personally I think that if tax has to be raised, which I guess it does, even though a lot of it is going to be wasted, then taxing something like petrol where the more you use, the more you pay, doesn't seem to be unreasonable.

[flyerncle]

Did go off at a slight tangent but I do feel strongly about what I said.
I do not want to get into a debate/argument but things must change radically in this country or before very long there will be a revolt.

The price of oil went to an all time low recently,petrol prices did not.
Taxing the motorist has been a government sport from time's dawn and is easy to do,the more the government screws up the more tax we pay,the more troops we send to support Americas need for oil the more tax we pay and so on, so please do not try and kid anybody that the tax we pay for anything is proportional.
We are the highest taxed country in Europe.
Gas oil/red diesel,the tax is or was 5% untill you re-sell it,you then add 15% to it so the net result is 20% in tax,do you see where I am coming from, tax on tax on tax re-ocurring.
Rant over.

The VAT thing is miniscule comparsion.

Goodnight.

[mr henderson]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

things must change radically in this country or before very long there will be a revolt.

Shouldn't think so, there hasn't been one for over three hundred years. Look at how smokers are taxed, motorists have it easy in comparison.

[alga]

Well, in US they have it even worse! The prices quoted at retailers don't include the sales tax, so if you want to buy a $1.55 candy bar and have the exact sum in coins, you'll be asked for something like $1.73 at the register.

[flyerncle]

There's time Mr Henderson watch this space.....