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Government to suspend 14% tax on PC monitors?
Last year you had a news article about the increase in duty that monitors with DVI interfaces would be subject to.
From 1st october it would appear they have been attracting an extra 14% duty because they are being classed as video monitors. I'm sure there were plenty of readers who felt this was simply another stealth tax on new technology and I took up the issue with my local MP, Norman Baker, who has written to the Treasury about it.
You will not be surprised that the Treasury's response wasn't exactly helpful. However, another letter and another response and they have added a comment that " ...a proposal is to be submitted to the European Council to suspend duties on certain types of monitor, classified in the 14% duty heading, that are most likely to be used with personal computers."
The comment goes on to say if this goes through it is intended to make this retrospective from January 1st. So how is that going to work? If you bought a monitor recently how will you claim the duty back? Will the government tell us? I'm waiting to see what develops.
Rod Main
Don't trust them, do you? Last I heard they were going to make you pay a licence fee for having a computer. Is that correct?
Posted by Ken Lewis | March 18, 2005 4:01 PM
Not quite, but that doesn't mean it is any less of an outrage.
Not content with taxing our TV viewing via the BBC (a personal opinion, but the licence fee should be scrapped - they waste loads of our money while making millions by selling the rights to programmes they make), the Government is considering wrapping the BBC in yet more cotton wool and protecting it from those that dare to watch TV over broadband in the future. You can check the story out here: http://www.pcw.co.uk/news/1161957
Posted by Rob | March 18, 2005 5:06 PM
Another Hardhitting of govt.Din't they get any new strategie for takinf taxes.
http://www.Johnbeckland.com/tax-foreclosures.html
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