livejournal_uk: VAT FREE CONDOMS!

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txt_eva) wrote in

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@ 2005-11-28 21:00:00

VAT FREE CONDOMS!
Join Superdrugs fight to take the 17.5% tax of condoms... the govenment tells us to use them but charges us 17.5% extra for the pleasure... The UK currently pays £7 million pounds in VAT a year on condoms alone!

Please sign the petition!

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	suzylou 2005-11-28 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Only if you take it off sanitary products too :P (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	I wish they would too! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ohmydearwow 2005-11-28 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	we are taxed on those too?! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	imdaewen 2005-11-28 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	I think it is a lower rate of tax. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	suzylou 2005-11-28 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	Only at 5% I believe, but yes... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dpash 2005-11-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	But not on newspapers. Isn't life wonderful. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	turk_diddler 2005-11-28 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Fat free condoms? But would they taste the same? Wait, that's VAT... ahhhh, I get it now. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	giggles (Reply to this) (Parent)

	urbanevangelist 2005-11-28 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	You can get condoms for free. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	true... but we still shouldnt have to pay the tax (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	urbanevangelist 2005-11-28 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	But you don't pay tax, if you get them for free. They are avaliable for free... you CHOOSE to pay for them and therefore CHOOSE to pay the tax which is necessary on all goods. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	rachelectronic 2005-11-28 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	We had a whole argument about this a few weeks ago. Not pretty. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	oh. missed it... sorry... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	rachelectronic 2005-11-28 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	oh I wasn't criticising... I'm surprised so many people have been positive about it actually. If I remember rightly people were a lot nastier about it last time. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	michelle_1785 2005-11-28 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	I was gonna say...! I didn't think it was that long ago I was talking about it! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	i do kinda pop on and off this comm... (tho I do remember half a dozen best threads the otherday so a repeat after a few weeks isn't so bad...) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lloydjs 2005-11-28 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	All ya need is cling film for him, a cork for her, the lights off and everybody's happy! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	hehe! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	_dilly_o 2005-11-28 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	or even a packet of cheese and O! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blackpinkstars 2005-11-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	I never understood why condoms are so expensive, especially when people complain so much about teenage pregnancies. I don't think they want to spend all their pocket money on 2 or 3 shags. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	you can get them free.... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	blackpinkstars 2005-11-28 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	But they're so grooooooooooooooooss. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	scorchedflower 2005-11-28 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	Because they're produced by companies, who's aim is to make a profit. In that respect they're no different to trainers. The costs no excuse, they're given out free in schools, doctors, youth clubs, family planning centres, community centres, advisory services and about a million other places. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	txt_eva 2005-11-28 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	free is free tho (Reply to this)

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	freakqueenaa 2005-11-29 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	They charge VAT on adult clothes, something I think is more necessary than condoms. (Reply to this)

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