Reporting the breaking news of the day we have the BBC
“UK tax officials acknowledged that chocolate teacakes had been wrongly classed as biscuits in 1994, prompting M&S to launch a legal battle to have the wrongly-paid VAT returned.”
Anyone want to see if the price of M&S chocolate tea-cakes decreases by 17.5%?
How are M&S going to return this £3.5 million to the people who were erroneously charged VAT?
I think the Treasury should refund the consumers directly to anyone who shows a receipt and the remainder used to line the pockets of our nation’s top politicians.
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I was in London in March 1999. In my pocket, have the receipt for a packet of tea-cakes which I coincidentally bought in M&S while there. Can I claim the VAT back on this? Would that be possible? How do I go about doing this?
Apply in writing: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/