VAT on pies

[Diver]

I gather VAT is to be levied on pies and suchlike sold warmer than the ambient temperature.

Surely the solution is simple - Sell the food stone cold, but provide two or three microwave ovens in front of the counter, which customers can use to warm their pies.

Brilliant!

It would be after point of sale and therefore a free service and not subject to tax

NOT!

I'm Trying to lose the belly here Owlhoot. any barriers to that goal, even a miniscule bit of tax on fattening foodstuffs is a good thing

[BigTime]

All they need to do is turn off the warming plate and then the bagel rule applies. Then they can sell it to you hot, cooling and already cold with the warning that if you bite into it and it's still warm, you need to return with the VAT money.

[BrilloPad]

Taxing bakers is the closest we’ll get to taxing bankers, confirms government

The government has defended its decision to slap VAT on sales of hot pasties by insisting that a tax on bakers is only one letter away from a tax on bankers.

[vetran]

completely different experience, microwaved pies taste different.

another pathetic ill thought out tax, thought we had got past those with the departure of new lie.

[gingerjedi]

So getting my spicy 6 incher toasted for 15 seconds (I saw the counter) will cost an extra 70p?

I've taken a dislike to Gideon.

[DimPrawn]

Have the idiots at New Labour towers actually left the building?

We go from one idiotic tax, spend, control freakery, banker centric, money printing, bureaucratic, war mongering bunch of cretins to another.

UKIP. No VAT on pies.

[gingerjedi]

Have the idiots at New Labour towers actually left the building?

We go from one idiotic tax, spend, control freakery, banker centric, money printing, bureaucratic, war mongering bunch of cretins to another.

UKIP. No VAT on pies.

The ballot paper might as well say 'Kick in the bollox' or 'poke in the eye'.

[pjclarke]

It's PastyGate!

Cameron:

"I think the last one I bought was from the West Cornwall Pasty Company. I seem to remember I was in Leeds station at the time and the choice was whether to have one of their small ones or one of their large ones. I have got a feeling I opted for the large one, and very good it was too."

But the West Cornwall Pasty Company outlet where he thought he enjoyed his last pasty closed two years ago. There was a Cornish Bakehouse booth at the station; that closed last week.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, not normally known for his proletarian manner, sensed he could save the squeezed middle. He rushed to a Greggs in Redditch – where he and Ed Balls ate sausage rolls – and announced that his party would make common cause with west country MPs and vote against the measure in the budget.

Pasty row hots up for David Cameron | Politics | The Guardian

[gingerjedi]

Cameron:
But the West Cornwall Pasty Company outlet where he thought he enjoyed his last pasty closed two years ago. There was a Cornish Bakehouse booth at the station; that closed last week.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, not normally known for his proletarian manner, sensed he could save the squeezed middle. He rushed to a Greggs in Redditch – where he and Ed Balls ate sausage rolls – and announced that his party would make common cause with west country MPs and vote against the measure in the budget.

Pasty row hots up for David Cameron | Politics | The Guardian

Greggs is northern shirley?

I hate Greggs, as soon as they set up shop Devon savouries shut down.

[Sands of Time]

Greggs is northern shirley?

I hate Greggs, as soon as they set up shop Devon savouries shut down.

Loads in Lundan!



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