Sentence examples for vat changes from inspiring English sources

Its passage without the VAT changes would not be enough, say officials, but their approval looks doubtful.

Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, Mr Tsipras ruled out VAT changes that would impose the full 23% rate on energy.

It is anchored on VAT changes producing additional revenue of 1% of GDP and a reform of the pension system that leads to savings of 1% of GDP in 2016.

This last is a mistake, since VAT changes, not necessarily across the board, could make a useful difference to tax receipts, and thus to deficit reduction in the short term, and then be handily lifted as the next election nears.

Neville Hill, European economist at Credit Suisse, argued that high inflation can no longer be solely explained by one-off factors such as the weak pound, VAT changes and rising ingredient prices.

That's partly because politicians have reached for quick-and-easy VAT changes as a money-raiser in recent years, hoping they are less noticeable than piling a penny on income tax, which shows up in black and white on pay slips.

Crucially, he says, a VAT change will have a massive and "tragic" effect on the lives of islanders themselves.

The VAT change on takeaway hot meat products ended a glaring discrimination against fish and chip shops, and was a modest blow against obesity.

Local business rates are the most effective means of ensuring a fair and consistent contribution; the VAT change will not deliver the same effect.

He attributed it to short-term factors, including the VAT change, as well as rapidly rising petrol prices and the knock-on effect of the weakening pound, which pushes up the cost of imports.

Such, though, is the great gap that separates London's more elevated postcodes, and the less fortunate parts of the country, for whom the static caravan is a pretty incisive byword – as evidenced by the scores of caravan sites that dot East Yorkshire and Humberside, where the VAT change would have fallen like a hammer.