Teacake set to cost taxman £3.5m

[Sweetpea]

The UK Treasury is facing a £3.5m bill, because of VAT wrongly imposed on a Marks and Spencer teacake, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
Customers paid VAT for 20 years before the authorities accepted the product was a cake, which does not command VAT. The UK argued that paying back the total sum would "unjustly enrich" M&S as customers had paid the money.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Teacake set to cost taxman £3.5m

Whoops!

So when do the customers get THEIR refund for illegaly charged VAT?

[poppy]

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

So when do the customers get THEIR refund for illegaly charged VAT?

How about amass trespass to demand refunds

[ambriel]

The VAT should be refunded to M&S and they should then donate it to a series of UK charities.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by ambriel

The VAT should be refunded to M&S and they should then donate it to a series of UK charities.

who then line their own pockets before giving just enough away to retain their charity reg?

HEY. I AM the cynical one around here!

Screw HM Customs, the bastards shut down perfectly viable businesses every year over thruppence ha-penny attitudes towards their begging bowl. why not let M&S blow it on an expensive ad-campaign with nice looking birds in it?

What? Ducks? Chickens? Geese?

Sorry Von, I Mean't Buuurrrds, not the feathered kind.

You are showing your age.

They were called that in the 60s, I believe.

NOW they are Ladies, Women, or chav tarts.

Here we have Poppy, who is a lady, Sweetpea, who MAY be a lady when she wants, and as far as I know, chav tarts do not come here because it does not involve Laura Croft, GTA, or "Disperate house wives". (And YES I DID spell that how I MEANT it.)