Teacake

[webofevil]

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 [wrongly classed as a biscuit] was a cake, which does not command VAT. [BBC]

Comments

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Will M&S be returning the VAT to its customers?

-x-

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Exactly. How does the consumer benefit from this? Also, were Tunnock's or other teacake brands for some reason classified differently? Perplexing stuff, the biscuit cake industry.

[g0ldt00th.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the Jaffa Cake case from a couple of years ago:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/jaffajudgement/

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Obligatory poll here, including discussion of the poppadom question.

oh dere lord, don't start all that again...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

SURELY IT IS A PIE!!!!!!

Re: oh dere lord, don't start all that again...

[(Anonymous)]

Savoury = pie
Fruit = tart
Chocolate = tort

[lowlowprices.livejournal.com]

This still doesn't solve the Wagon Wheel conundrum: a wagon-based wheel snack or a wheel-based wagon snack?

[nudejournal.livejournal.com]

JEWS

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

What what WHAT??

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

M&S need to run a free prize draw for a packet of these things, you know, for interested parties. Nom nom nom.