"Recliner" wrote in message
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"Steve Fitzgerald" ] wrote

15%? Isn't VAT 17.5%?

No
Temporarily reduced from 17.5% for just over a year from December 2008 to
December 2009. This was suggested by former Tory Chancellor Ken Clarke as a
way of reducing the effect of the recession; the Labour Government jumped at
the idea without thinking it through themselves; and the Tory Opposition now
says it was a stupid idea that isn't working.

Peter