Worth watching on the BBC iPlayer – it’s the main story, and the cross party support is significant.

From the BBC today: A debate in the House of Lords gained cross-party support to close a VAT loophole which costs the UK government £130m
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On 13th February 2011 BBC News 24 covered the increasing pressure being put on the UK Government to end the so called offshore fulfilment industry
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The BBC has covered the growing threat to the ‘fulfilment’ industry in the Islands – an industry that exists solely to exploit VAT tax avoidance.
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I have the following letter in the Guardian today: Simon Jenkins is right that VAT is the wrong tax at the wrong moment (Save the
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HMV is shutting sixty stores. OK, only 40 are music and video stores; I accept that. But for those 40 and all who will lose
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Simon Jenkins is a perplexing, and confused man. He’s written a piece for the Guardian in which he strongly criticises, on Keynesian grounds, the rise
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The UK VAT increase has a knock on effect – the saving from shipping from the Channel Islands increases. Channel TV has featured the issue
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I wrote the following last July, but it seems apposite to repost it now: The UK government has proposed increasing the standard rate of Value
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