The 'who's' getting shafted over tax avoidance thread?

[mudskipper]

The whole VAT thing is stupid. No VAT on books, but VAT on kindle books? Stoopid.

[Sysman]

What about those cheeky ****ers who choose lower paid jobs so they can pay lower rate tax?

I considered that back in the days of 60% tax. I really wasn't keen on seeing more than 50% of my income going in taxes & NI payments.

What to do? Stop working and have a much earned holiday?

Nah! I bought a new car, new computer, fax machine and office furniture!

Which when you look at it in terms of the bigger economic picture was the Right Thing To Do. I was stimulating the economy with that spending.

And as a bonus I got some rather nice cheques from the VATman.

[Sysman]

The whole VAT thing is stupid. No VAT on books, but VAT on kindle books? Stoopid.

In the mid-90s nobody seemed to know what to do with computer books which came with a CD. If I remember correctly the official VAT Handbook had it that if a CD was included, VAT should be charged on the lot.

Yours truly found a shop which ignored that rule, so I got my Winders Server Resource Kit VAT free. At 150 quid that was a decent saving (OK I was VAT registered so could have got the VAT back, but I wasn't complaining).