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Harrods, for example, which has stores in all five Heathrow terminals, sells all its products VAT free.
Amanda Tickel, tax partner at KPMG UK, says: "It's important to understand that the UK threshold of £81,000 is not being removed and micro-businesses selling digital services to customers in the UK can still trade VAT free as long as they are below that threshold.
This loophole previously allowed for commercial items worth less than £15 to be sent VAT free.
LVCR allowed companies in the Channel Islands to sell low price goods VAT free to UK customers.
This island is supposidly VAT free anyway... however, we are already paying much more for many items than you would in the UK.
The problem here is most UK based food items are VAT free and the price is part of the packaging.With GST on each item all prices will have to be changed at much expense to the consumer.Just think, all UK newspapers will have to have sticky labels covering the price as under Jersey law it would be illegal to shown a non-gst based price.
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