If the government is paying then the VAT comes straight back into government coffers anyway though. The Treasury isn’t going to care whether they pay VAT on things, although individual government dep… (View Post)

IIRC “making” in UK law basically means “copied a file onto their computer” doesn’t it? Viewing an image in your web browser is sufficient to meet the criteria. It’s a strict liability offence too. I… (View Post)

Whichever government won the last election, taxes were going up. The last Conservative budget required tax rises in this session in order to get the OBR to sign off on it. (View Post)

Much of this argument strikes me as very similar to the arguments around home schooling. Can a student learn the content of a university degree in a self directed fashion? Absolutely. The problem is … (View Post)

A privilege for which the (private sector owned) journals charge an absolute fortune. (View Post)