> > As Bob said, if you provide the proper paperwork showing you are a 
> > business and resaling the items in a product, you can get 
> an exemption.
> 
> That's the beauty of VAT: one system, (almost) everything 
> works the same, almost no paper work. No artificial 
> difference between reselling and producing, between product 
> and service. 
> 
> Gerhard


On behalf of taxpayers everywhere, I object (strenuously even!) to the
phrase "the beauty of VAT".  

Beauty should be paired with sunsets, paintings, Ducati motorcycles (but not
the wiring), women and those old PCBs with the groovy curved traces, not the
output of bean-counters, budget trolls and other treasury riff-raff.

(Our local version is called the GST (Goods & Services Tax), but the
principle still holds.)

Tony

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