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Your last sentence is what I meant. There's a huge difference between VAT and Purchase Tax. VAT is charged at all stages on goods and services but credited in intermediate stages, so there's a cumulative effect. Purchase tax is only on goods and only applied at the level of final sale to...

US sales tax is primarily a local one, which suits their methods of government where the states each have considerable power. Our structure needs national taxation, so without VAT it would be back to the old purchase tax system. Not one I ever liked since it had so many disadvantages. .

Shows how much cheaper it is by bike! I've just had a car carried the 252 miles from Chorley in Lancashire. £265 .

They all do it of course, simply because they have to in order to stay in business. The blame lies with the firms that started the cut price underquoting in the first place. However, if you take an introductory cut price, you'll find it will leap up year on year so will cost the same over...

Sounds like the charger may be faulty. However, if you use this link and scroll down to the foot of the page, you'll see the 26 volt Panasonic battery connections identified by function. The charger uses connections 1 to 4. .

Yes, I'd forgotten that change, only non EU jurisdictions now it seems, for under £15 value. .

Not within my comprehension! :) .

On a small scale yes. It's also getting close to that in many cases, often with only an importer in the line. The fact that so much is made in the Orient has been a limiting element for items direct from maker to consumer. Cyclone have always done it with their kit motors though. .

Indeed, but KudosDave was referring to to online selling to consumers, which includes large numbers of small scale businesses having no need to register. Something the likes of ebay and Amazon have made possible on such a scale. A bit of a nightmare for HMRC, since trying to tackle VAT fraud...

Online traders within ebay and Amazon not charging VAT aren't always fraudulent though, quite a few are small time with under £85,000 a year sales, the VAT registration level. And imports from the Channel Islands valued at less than £18 are VAT exempt. .

They are only British Crown Dependencies, never in the UK or the EU. The Queen is titular head but they are otherwise entirely self governing, with the free benefit that Britain provides their defence and consular services. They are also In the EU customs union and single market by treaty...

We do have an arrangement with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands. :D .

On my Leaf it's included for three years and their Connect system is always on so continuously updated without me having to do anything. .

Trikes etc are covered. In all cycling laws but the Countryside Act mention of Bridlepaths, those included are "bicycles, tricycles and bicycles with four or more wheels". Public use of those other things like Segways etc can be prosecuted under the 1835 Highway Act, though not for dangerous...

Hi Chris. Yes I remembered you straight away when you posted earlier. My scepticism in the early Cytronex days was based on the mainstream demand at that time for ever bigger batteries, with Cytronex going against that trend. But of course it was for a specialised market. I agree with you...

So that's how they keep the prices low! .

Assuming the cheap houses aren't wired into them for free electricity to grow their cannabis! .

There is a jaywalking law, but not enough police around to enforce it. However I did see a woman in East Grinstead get a really tough ticking off by a police officer who saw her walk out in front of my motorbike without looking. I was doing a cautious barely 30 mph so it didn't cause me any...

Which one is it OG, Superb, Octavia, other? Of course Skoda can't really take blame when most models are VW's thinly disguised. I had a 2003 Fabia 1.2 for over five years without a single fault of any kind. Never even developed a rattle. .

I decided I would aim for an early retirement at the age of 16, yes really, it's absolutely true. So I did eventually retire early and in 7 days time will have been retired for 28 years. With all that preparation time I've never found it difficult, the only difficulty was in tolerating the...