Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Buying abroad...
From: John Cooper <john@fireship.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:14:14 +0000

 Simon wrote
> I assume that 15% is referring to the UK VAT rate, in which case
> your catalogue is out of date by quite a few years!  We changed to a
> VAT rate of 17.5% a long time ago (I forget exactly when - perhaps
> 12 years ago?) so the prices in that catalogue will be very out of
> date.  On top of this, the pound is strong against European and US
> currencies, so UK prices are correspondingly low at the moment.
> 

Actually it just happens that +17.5% VAT = -15% (approx) for removing 
UK vat from inclusive prices....I hope that makes sense.

So it might not be out of date.

John Cooper  <http://www.fireship.demon.co.uk>