Dan NeidleI avoided tax yesterday, and bought the chocolate bar on the right.
Chocolate bars sold to eat: 20% VAT
Chocolate bars sold for cooking: 0% VAT
Even if exactly the same chocolate.
Railmaps@danneidle tell me more about this chocolate body paint.
Jo Clark@danneidle The real travesty of this is that the best chocolate for cooking with is halfway between milk and dark and sold in France as patisserie chocolate, whereas in the UK you have to buy Bournville and pay the VAT.
Phil Randal@danneidle 25 years ago (or so) the best chocolate you could buy in a UK supermarket was sold as cooking chocolate.
Rachel Greenham@PhilRandal @danneidle in the manner that once the only way you could get olive oil was in tiny vials from the chemist (for earwax).
We’re not that country any more, much as the brexity types would like to go back to those days with ‘none of that forrin muck’…
Ryan Walmsley@danneidle That only worked out because it was on sale right?
The normal RRP of the cooking chocolate shows as £2.50, making it normally more expensive?
@Ryanteck I’m sceptical of sale prices! But I will check next time I’m in
Seb@danneidle surprised the government doesn’t demand they’re dyed red
@danneidle imagine not knowing the difference between cooking chocolate and normal.
GnomeBones@danneidle Euroshopper Dark Chocolate £0.59 challenge accepted 🍫
Nick Dixon@danneidle so you're saying we should be buying Scotbloc like it's the 1970s again?
Terence Eden@danneidle LIFE HACK!
(omg - thank you for this tip)
Jayne 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈RRP is £2.50 😳
Even at £1.80 it’s still a bit of a rip off as if the difference was only VAT (at 20%) it should cost £1.60 🤓
@TCMuffin @danneidle not quite, as the VAT would be 20% of the lower price, not the higher one. Should be £1.67, as £1.67x1.2=£2.00
Good point, well made. Thank you 🙏
danofthewibble@danneidle Looking at the nutrition info, it’s not the same chocolate.
keplerniko@danneidle you didn’t avoid tax, you bought a zero-rated product.
John "John Davies" Davies ☑️