Bad news

Smoking Man · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:36

We may have to start paying for it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...g-in-Greggs-amid-ridicule-over-pasty-tax.html

George Osborne has been mocked by MPs over his “pasty tax”

TurnipHead · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:47

I doughnut agree with this.

[FnG]magnolia · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:48

George Osborne has been mocked by LITERALLY EVERYONE ALIVE

King Damager · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:53

[FnG]magnolia;21566738 said:
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Surely you can't say everybody, I'm sure about 90% of the world don't know who he is... Hell 90% of new zealanders probably don't know who he is...

kd

[FnG]magnolia · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:57

BEEP BEEP BOOP I AM A ROBOT AND DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HUMOUR IN SWEEPING AND GENERALISED STATEMENTS

G-MAN2004 · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:57

King Damager said:
Surely you can't say everybody, I'm sure about 90% of the world don't know who he is... Hell 90% of new zealanders probably don't know who he is...

kd

Yes, because he was being serious...

MeEsH BaKkA · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:59

Awkward moment.

Destination · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:00

G-MAN2004 said:
Yes, because he was being serious...

Well yes indeed, as smashing a pasty is now 20% more expensive, if it a warm soppy wet pasty, ready to be smashed. In other news, cold frigid pastys now twenty percent cheaper to smash.

Ahleckz · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:00

It's actually quite interesting. If you watch the video, he claims that if the product isn't hot then it isn't VATable. I'm unaware that there is a legal definition of 'hot' and an applicable temperature range. I've had sausage rolls from Greggs ranging from the extremely hot to the down right cold. According to our good Chancellor only one of those will be VATable. I would therefore expect to see a difference in price?

Efour · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:00

LOl the questions that MATTER !

Participant · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:01

Pasties (baked variety) are disgusting anyway. There I said it.

Destination · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:04

Ahleckz said:
It's actually quite interesting. If you watch the video, he claims that if the product isn't hot then it isn't VATable. I'm unaware that there is a legal definition of 'hot' and an applicable temperature range. I've had sausage rolls from Greggs ranging from the extremely hot to the down right cold. According to our good Chancellor only one of those will be VATable. I would therefore expect to see a difference in price?

He defined hot as above the ambient temperaturenof the room.

Ahleckz · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:07

Hikari Kisugi said:
He defined hot as above the ambient temperaturenof the room.

Where? Not being funny btw, just can't remember seeing it when I skimmed The Budget document.

alx · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:17

Hikari Kisugi said:
He defined hot as above the ambient temperaturenof the room.

So the definition of hot will vary with the time of year....good work George :rolleyes:

Energize · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:05

I think we need to stop charging tax on food.

MrMoonX · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:08

Energize said:
I think we need to stop charging tax on food.

This, its as good as taxing air

Pawnless Endgame · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:09

The gov't shouldn't single out one fatty product. It's either all fatty foods or none. Talk about beating around the bush eh.

Nightglow · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:13

One way around it, buy your pasty cold, & the shop offers to heat it in a microwave.

Use to see this in a shop some years ago.

Energize · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:16

MrMoonX said:
This, its as good as taxing air

George Osbourne won't be satisfied until all the poor are driven into the ground with crippling taxes on lifes essentials.

CaptainRAVE · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:21

Monserrat said:
The gov't shouldn't single out one fatty product. It's either all fatty foods or none. Talk about beating around the bush eh.

This tbh - then again, don't give them ideas