hidden taxes in the budget and other price increases

[mitsuru]

You know what the chancellor has hidden in his budget?

Food prices going up!

When you go to buy that hot sausage roll from gregs or that cooked chicken from tescos.
Expect the prices to go up as it will have tax added to it soon, and that will also happen
to the take away meal you just ordered from the pizza or Chinese takeaway.
VAT is to be added!!

Mother took me food shopping as Christine isn't on the road yet.
The first thing we passed was the local petrol station.
£1.40 a litre of petrol (and thats the 95 octane)

I'm sure that last week the same petrol station was selling it at £1.35, and yet the 3p increace
on fuel duty doesn't come in till August!

[Renrut]

Its about 135 round here. Nothing too bad.

I thought there was VAT on takeaways anyway?

[OilyFingers]

The only things zero rated for VAT are childrens clothes, food from the supermarket (groceries) and summat else. Restaurants have been VAT registered for donkeys years. Utility bills are 5%.


It would be far better to use the pent up rage for something useful, like a national fuel strike.