From: Gordon H 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Are students exempt from paying VAT on purchases?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:58:09 +0000

Ronald Raygun  writes
>Alasdair wrote:
>
>> On 12 Jan 2007 06:09:27 -0800, "Troy Steadman"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>A pie (or chicken or croissant) warm because it is cooling down it is
>>>Zero Rated. The same pie at the same temperature having been heated up
>>>is Standard Rated :)
>>
>> If you buy a hot  roast chicken at a fish and chip shop, it is
>> standard rated but if you buy the same product at the same temperature
>> at Sainsbury's supermarket, there is not VAT.
>
>Sure?
>
I can understand that if you have a sit-down meal in a chippie 
restaurant there may be VAT.

Not strictly relevant, but we had fish and chips at Morrisons recently, 
and the battered fish was delicious!
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Gordon H
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