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Previously on "Rishi Sunak considers online sales tax in bid to save high street"
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Originally posted by courtg9000 View PostThis will not fix traditional retail,
Traditional retail has been broken since before the internet.
So many retailers have gone bust in recent years and do you want to know why?
Traditional retail dosen't give a monkeys about the customer in general and the bigger they are they higher the pile the goods with often the cheapest of prices.
After a while their suppliers cannot get credit insurance and then the whole thing starts to unravel. Retailers cannot afford to pay cash on delivery.
IF the retail store environment was more attractive to the customer more money would be spent in the store. The other reason is that stores are too expensive to operate. The two are interlinked.
This is mainly the reason why INTU have gone bust too. The cost of servicing an over complicated corporate structure is the other big one with land mortgage payments being another.
This is not about trad retail its about Rishi topping up the piggy bank.
You get locked into a 5 or 10 or even 20 year lease where the price is more or less tied to the expected sales/traffic at the beginning of that period of time... But the chances of that staying static over such a long period of time are basically 0 so it's such a gamble.
What can you do? Keep running it while it's profitable, extract all the cash, and go bankrupt at the first sign of trouble and abandon your lease and business. That's about all you can do. Then you start over with a new business.
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This will not fix traditional retail,
Traditional retail has been broken since before the internet.
So many retailers have gone bust in recent years and do you want to know why?
Traditional retail dosen't give a monkeys about the customer in general and the bigger they are they higher the pile the goods with often the cheapest of prices.
After a while their suppliers cannot get credit insurance and then the whole thing starts to unravel. Retailers cannot afford to pay cash on delivery.
IF the retail store environment was more attractive to the customer more money would be spent in the store. The other reason is that stores are too expensive to operate. The two are interlinked.
This is mainly the reason why INTU have gone bust too. The cost of servicing an over complicated corporate structure is the other big one with land mortgage payments being another.
This is not about trad retail its about Rishi topping up the piggy bank.
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the only interest is to keep the old senile people happy that are too stupid to use the internet.
or the population that responds to their messages and helps the establishment prolongs it's existing.
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Originally posted by jayn200 View PostTax will have to be high to influence buyer behavior and actually help high street shops. A lot higher than 2%, I didn't read the link or anything about this proposal so no idea if 2% is the value that's being proposed.
I would imagine you would need at least 10% to start influencing behavior, even higher if you want a significant shift that might actually be able to keep shops in business.
Also when I'm not WFH or I have loads of meetings I use local newsagents for parcel delivery. Doing this will lead to more of them going out of business.
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Tax will have to be high to influence buyer behavior and actually help high street shops. A lot higher than 2%, I didn't read the link or anything about this proposal so no idea if 2% is the value that's being proposed.
I would imagine you would need at least 10% to start influencing behavior, even higher if you want a significant shift that might actually be able to keep shops in business.
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Originally posted by elsergiovolador View PostThis is so dumb.
So they think if a product online becomes more expensive, people will leave home and go to their high street to buy it instead.
How much expensive it must be for someone to trade the comfort of their own home into standing in a queue for ages and then talking to useless staff and then carrying the product home hoping it is all working, because returning it will be a repeat of that.
What about people who are disabled and who rely on online shops. Do they need to carry the burden as well?
If there was a way to make high street shops viable... hmm... what could it be...? hmm...
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
4. Don't make me queue 20 minutes! Yep you Tesco & Primark.Last edited by elsergiovolador; 28 July 2020, 10:50.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostIt was obvious 20 years ago that shops were going to be in trouble. The correct path in my opinion was
1. Make shopping in Physical shops a positive experience. Use a scanner to get your body shape and an interactive dressing tool to select the right clothes and then deliver them to your house. If you don't have my size arrange for it to be delivered to my house.
2. Make Shops an event where you learn something or enjoy yourself scowling assistants are hardly a winning look. Makeup master classes, dress for success specials etc.
3. Make shops a pleasure with coffee shops etc. BHS & Debenhams had a coffee shop for decades but Starbucks & Costa have supplanted them because the coffee shops were grim 35 years ago when I worked in them through college.
4. Don't make me queue 20 minutes! Yep you Tesco & Primark.
Shops that have nothing but a shelf are not really viable in the long term.
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Originally posted by elsergiovolador View PostThis is so dumb.
So they think if a product online becomes more expensive, people will leave home and go to their high street to buy it instead.
How much expensive it must be for someone to trade the comfort of their own home into standing in a queue for ages and then talking to useless staff and then carrying the product home hoping it is all working, because returning it will be a repeat of that.
What about people who are disabled and who rely on online shops. Do they need to carry the burden as well?
If there was a way to make high street shops viable... hmm... what could it be...? hmm...
It was obvious 20 years ago that shops were going to be in trouble. The correct path in my opinion was
1. Make shopping in Physical shops a positive experience. Use a scanner to get your body shape and an interactive dressing tool to select the right clothes and then deliver them to your house. If you don't have my size arrange for it to be delivered to my house.
2. Make Shops an event where you learn something or enjoy yourself scowling assistants are hardly a winning look. Makeup master classes, dress for success specials etc.
3. Make shops a pleasure with coffee shops etc. BHS & Debenhams had a coffee shop for decades but Starbucks & Costa have supplanted them because the coffee shops were grim 35 years ago when I worked in them through college.
4. Don't make me queue 20 minutes! Yep you Tesco & Primark.
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This is so dumb.
So they think if a product online becomes more expensive, people will leave home and go to their high street to buy it instead.
How much expensive it must be for someone to trade the comfort of their own home into standing in a queue for ages and then talking to useless staff and then carrying the product home hoping it is all working, because returning it will be a repeat of that.
What about people who are disabled and who rely on online shops. Do they need to carry the burden as well?
If there was a way to make high street shops viable... hmm... what could it be...? hmm...
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostThis wasn't about replacing business rates, as I understood it. The online sales tax was envisaged as a new source of revenue, sold under the pretense of helping the d00med highstreet. To reform business rates, they were mooting a land value tax paid by the owners of land/buildings (and passed back to those paying business rates, duh).
How would they collect 2% from imports? There is a working system for VAT, so 3rd countries would have to do totally new one called "Sales Tax".
Fecking moronic exercise only to get 2 bln.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostYou really think that?
They can't even get Mr Green, nevermind Amazon - any taxes, especially stuff like sales tax will be passed 100% to the buyers - us.
What pisses me off is that those muppets will create totally new tax with new red tape increasing costs on businesses instead of (say) just increasing VAT on online sales, then at least it's different rate vs completely new tax - naturally they "promised" not to increase VAT, so it "can't be done", or more likely they will want to take sales tax regardless if business that buys online is VAT registered or not.
So, imagine 2% extra tax on £ 1 mln quid hardware
2% will raise only 2 bln anyway, to reduce business rate dramatically (say 50%), they'd need to get 10 bln, so 10% online tax - a non-starter surely.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostThey are trying to invent ways of getting Amazon and Micheal Green.
They can't even get Mr Green, nevermind Amazon - any taxes, especially stuff like sales tax will be passed 100% to the buyers - us.
What pisses me off is that those muppets will create totally new tax with new red tape increasing costs on businesses instead of (say) just increasing VAT on online sales, then at least it's different rate vs completely new tax - naturally they "promised" not to increase VAT, so it "can't be done", or more likely they will want to take sales tax regardless if business that buys online is VAT registered or not.
So, imagine 2% extra tax on £ 1 mln quid hardware
2% will raise only 2 bln anyway, to reduce business rate dramatically (say 50%), they'd need to get 10 bln, so 10% online tax - a non-starter surely.Last edited by AtW; 27 July 2020, 21:43.
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