Sentence examples for Exempt from vat charges from inspiring English sources

It emerged that retailers were using information on the cards to secure a tax saving, because most goods sold by airport stores to passengers travelling outside the European Union are exempt from VAT charges of up to 20%.

Ostensibly about the coalition raising VAT on shopping bills, it features lots of items exempt from VAT, and some antipasti, and is capped with our deathless Yodaism, Hardworking Britain Better Off.

A spokesman for TNT Post, a leading competitor of Royal Mail, said: "To enable end to end competition to take place in the UK, the Government needs to level the competitive landscape in terms of VAT immediately, as currently Royal Mail is exempt from charging VAT on business mail services, unlike its competitors.

Given all these problems, it might seem hard to believe that financial services are exempt from VAT.

Zero-rated items – including food and children's clothes – will remain exempt from VAT over the course of this parliament.

Currently alterations to listed buildings are exempt from VAT if they are classed as "renovation and improvement".

In 2001 this was lowered to five per cent but campaigners have insisted that they are in fact essential and should therefore be completely exempt from VAT.

One of the reasons committee members think it could come in under budget is that the work could be made exempt from VAT.

There are tax incentives: the cost of converting a non-residential building into a home is exempt from VAT spent on materials and services.

At present builders of new homes are exempt from VAT (sales tax) while developers who wish to convert existing buildings have to pay at the full rate of 17.5%.

A High Court judge ruled that the packaging, "unnatural shape" and potato content of less than 50 per cent meant that Pringles could not be classified as crisps, and therefore were exempt from VAT.