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A little space to add your weekly 'moans'....I'll begin....
Last night, me and Mrs Dragonlance attended an Engagement party in our local town. We parked in a multi-storey car park close to the venue. The car park advertised 50p after 6pm on Saturdays. We arrived at 7pm and left at 10.30pm - not being 'night clubers' and Mrs Dragonlance was at work the next day. The automated ticket machine obviously hadn't been given the Saturday evening arrangements and insisted on charging us £3.70 to leave. Not having a crowbar or similar appliance to hand, we paid and left vowing to follow this up the next day, as did other users.
However, on investigating the ticket, I discovered that the charge included VAT! How can you be charged VAT on parking?
This leads to the next pondering - VAT stands for Value Added Tax - so where or what is the Value??? The dictionary definition is even more confusing in this scenario.....
tax on amount by which the value of an article is increased by each stage in its production
Right??? Since when was 'parking' an article - is this another stealth tax.....over to you:-)
Last night, me and Mrs Dragonlance attended an Engagement party in our local town. We parked in a multi-storey car park close to the venue. The car park advertised 50p after 6pm on Saturdays. We arrived at 7pm and left at 10.30pm - not being 'night clubers' and Mrs Dragonlance was at work the next day. The automated ticket machine obviously hadn't been given the Saturday evening arrangements and insisted on charging us £3.70 to leave. Not having a crowbar or similar appliance to hand, we paid and left vowing to follow this up the next day, as did other users.
However, on investigating the ticket, I discovered that the charge included VAT! How can you be charged VAT on parking?
This leads to the next pondering - VAT stands for Value Added Tax - so where or what is the Value??? The dictionary definition is even more confusing in this scenario.....
tax on amount by which the value of an article is increased by each stage in its production
Right??? Since when was 'parking' an article - is this another stealth tax.....over to you:-)
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A little space to add your weekly 'moans'....I'll begin....
Last night, me and Mrs Dragonlance attended an Engagement party in our local town. We parked in a multi-storey car park close to the venue. The car park advertised 50p after 6pm on Saturdays. We arrived at 7pm and left at 10.30pm - not being 'night clubers' and Mrs Dragonlance was at work the next day. The automated ticket machine obviously hadn't been given the Saturday evening arrangements and insisted on charging us £3.70 to leave. Not having a crowbar or similar appliance to hand, we paid and left vowing to follow this up the next day, as did other users.
However, on investigating the ticket, I discovered that the charge included VAT! How can you be charged VAT on parking?
This leads to the next pondering - VAT stands for Value Added Tax - so where or what is the Value??? The dictionary definition is even more confusing in this scenario.....
tax on amount by which the value of an article is increased by each stage in its production
Right??? Since when was 'parking' an article - is this another stealth tax.....over to you:-)
Last night, me and Mrs Dragonlance attended an Engagement party in our local town. We parked in a multi-storey car park close to the venue. The car park advertised 50p after 6pm on Saturdays. We arrived at 7pm and left at 10.30pm - not being 'night clubers' and Mrs Dragonlance was at work the next day. The automated ticket machine obviously hadn't been given the Saturday evening arrangements and insisted on charging us £3.70 to leave. Not having a crowbar or similar appliance to hand, we paid and left vowing to follow this up the next day, as did other users.
However, on investigating the ticket, I discovered that the charge included VAT! How can you be charged VAT on parking?
This leads to the next pondering - VAT stands for Value Added Tax - so where or what is the Value??? The dictionary definition is even more confusing in this scenario.....
tax on amount by which the value of an article is increased by each stage in its production
Right??? Since when was 'parking' an article - is this another stealth tax.....over to you:-)
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