Stop the pasty tax!

Interesting discussion re the temperature of said pies / pasties at sale - hot and cold not too difficult to detect and deal with VAT-wise appropriately, "warm" seems to be the one posing the problem.  Apparently the problem stems from the fact that if a pie / pasty is sold on one day when the ambient temperature is colder, then the pie would appear warmer than a similar pie / pasty sold on a warmer day when it (ie the pie / pasty) would appear colder, thus VAT rates could and would change daily.

That could also lead to accusations for futher discrimination on the grounds that we all know that the weather down sarff (Middle England, Toryland) is considerably warmer than oop north, so tax would be less likely to be applied in the pie-guzzling areas of Tory Heartland.

Either way, won't affect me because I can't eat them.

Clearly then they should introduce a sliding scale of VAT depending on the temperature. Frozen pasties would be VAT-free, whilst one straight out of the oven would be charged the full rate, and a number of Pasty VAT rate bands would be defined for temperatures in between.

The whole purpose of government is to add layers of complexity to the existing bureaucracy otherwise how is progress ever going to be made?

Kryten wrote (see)

Clearly then they should introduce a sliding scale of VAT depending on the temperature.

That could also lead to job creation - you could have a load of government-appointed Pasty Required Acceptable Temperature Scrutineers: people appointed by the government to go to the various pie and pasty sellers checking the temperatures of pies and pasties as they are sold and ensuring that the appropriate amount of VAT is applied.

ba-doom tish!

we aren't really husband material

Jeepers  wrote (see)

Kryten wrote (see)

Clearly then they should introduce a sliding scale of VAT depending on the temperature.

That could also lead to job creation - you could have a load of government-appointed Pasty Required Acceptable Temperature Scrutineers: people appointed by the government to go to the various pie and pasty sellers checking the temperatures of pies and pasties as they are sold and ensuring that the appropriate amount of VAT is applied.

Ouch aye,  sarsenach.

KK