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New VAT rules for importing, anyone?

@ToffeeTim

Seems like any manufacturer outside of the UK needs to spend at least 1k upfront to register to pay VAT via an agency (probably owned by a seeing minister's family member).

Surely this is going to seriously limit purchasing choice and favour corporations (FFS)?
 
While everyone is fapping about fishing

UK talks on Horizon Europe price tag ‘not in a good position’

UK negotiations over the price tag for joining the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme are not going well. “We shouldn’t obscure the fact that the financial negotiations are not in a good position,” said Vivienne Stern, head of Universities UK, the umbrella body for 139 universities. “The...
sciencebusiness.net sciencebusiness.net
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Another world leader we're happy to toss down the river on the good ship Brexit

www.economist.com

What Brexit will do to the City of London

The damage will be noticeable but not disastrous
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Will Brexit affect another of our "world leading" industries, ie money laundering through the "City of London" spivs?
Don't think so, bets against our "economy'" are making millions for greedy disaster capitalist individuals.
 
mellowblue said:



More winning....
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More expensive, less choice, and in some cases, no choice.

Ironically, it stems from an EU rule that's being introduced at the end of the year, however, our government appears to have opted for an interpretation that favours corporations/big business, whereas the EU's doesn't...
 
orchard said:
More expensive, less choice, and in some cases, no choice.

Ironically, it stems from an EU rule that's being introduced at the end of the year, however, our government appears to have opted for an interpretation that favours corporations/big business, whereas the EU's doesn't...
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This is actually 100% true. It is very odd.
 
orchard said:
More expensive, less choice, and in some cases, no choice.

Ironically, it stems from an EU rule that's being introduced at the end of the year, however, our government appears to have opted for an interpretation that favours corporations/big business, whereas the EU's doesn't...
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Ahhh..those CEOs who are feted as the "captains of industry"..trod on everyone on their way to the "top" Sacked working people for "the greater good"
Lots in common with their supposed enemy...Josef Stalin
 
orly said:
This is actually 100% true. It is very odd.
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It's not odd though, unfortunately, there are plenty of instances of ukgov tweaking EU laws to favour larger scale operations, sad as it is.

From Etsy, Kickstarter, buying that rare CD to that cottage industry tool/item that isn't made or imported here, it's really poop, and obviously, it'll apply to the EU countries too :(
 
42. Which brings us onto Brexit: and Boris Johnson’s oven-ready deal has skipped the middle-man and gone straight into the toilet
 
mill said:
Yes because the ENTIRE financial services system is just a collection of disaster capitalists.
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Enough of it is. I defy anyone to look at what happened to James Ibori (and especially his lawyer Bhadresh Gohil) and come to a conclusion that the system as a whole is not just a collection of disaster capitalists.
 
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