Much as I appreciate an extra 2.5% in my pocket, I am slightly afeared of how many places the value 17.5 will have been hard coded in any of the computer systems I may now have to reprogramme. Not to many I hope.
This new VAT change will not change the price we're paying for everything of course, the majority of most people's outgoings are rent and energy and Jaffa Cakes and things, which are not taxed in this way.
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