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Food and childrens clothing are also exempt from UK VAT.

• parenthesis 16y ago
  To be pedantic, food (except for, roughly, `luxury' and catered foods), children's clothing, and books, amongst other things, are zero-rated, rather than exempt (a separate category which includes medical treatment and education).
  • rmc 16y ago
    Some plain foods have zzero vat. More luxurous food is taxed. This is important when you think of jaffa cakes, are they a biscuit or a cake? If they are a buscuit, then they don't have vat, if cake, then the price goes up
• hugh3 16y ago
  If I understand correctly this leads to some bizarre inconsistencies; for instance bras up to a certain size (34B?) are "children's clothing" and untaxed, a fact which must cause dubious rejoicing among the less-endowed women of Britain. Also I seem to recall that some foods are taxed differently depending on whether you intend to eat them in or take them away -- even for things where it makes no difference to how they package them. If you tell Pret A Manger that you're going to take your chocolate mousse away but wind up sitting down and eating it in the store, you're breaking the law. (Not sure whether that's the VAT or some other issue).