Chris Dillow reports on the new book, the Bumper Book of Government Waste. I too have a copy and will post more on it later.
Favourite line so far, from their history of taxation:
1954. VAT invented by Frenchman Maurice Laure.
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The Bumper Book of Government Waste.
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His countrymen are continuing the tradition. I have a purchase order on my desk, which is not in France, for an exhibition stand rental in Paris. The French allegedly exempt a whole raft of services from VAT but is the rental of a stand one? No. And as the EU is VAT-exempt (be a bit daft to pay back into a fund that part-funds you in the first place), and VAT exemption procedure varies from country to country across the EU, I have to do a 15.10 to get out of paying cross-border VAT on a service which should be exempt of VAT anyway.
Those of you who don’t already know what a 15.10 is (and if you do you have my sympathy) don’t want to know.
The French are so very trying. Even when they play elegant rugby.
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