food tax
Who here lives in Britain? Apparently... potato chips and biscuits get taxed? D:
While I was trawling the net (legitimately, I might add! :p I'm... media watching, I believe the term is, for academic purposes. Sometimes, I get distracted), I came across this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/5357624/Let-them-eat-crisps.html
Quoting from this article:
Pringles, the law has declared, are no longer cakes, but crisps. This has cost their makers £100 million in VAT.
Pringles were, at some point, cakes? Oh my, what businesses do to avoid tax. But honestly, this value-added tax business sounds a bit.... frown inducing.
Another quote,
Lawyers have already had to argue that Marks and Spencer teacakes are indeed cake, and the makers of Jaffa cakes had to resort to law to prove that their chocolate-covered confections were not biscuits, which would have taken them into the luxury tax bracket.
Biscuits => luxury tax bracket?
The UK has a tax on biscuits? D:
But... there's no tax on cake, apparently.
There is hope for the UK yet. :)