UserName

Is it really that difficult to work out that for every £10 you will spend, about 30p of it (where applicable) was GST? (yes I know it should be 29.1p using the correct maths 3/103 but things will be rounded anyway, so accuracy won't be spot on).

And so what? For example, does anyone really know how much of their petrol/diesel costs are actually tax? Or your drink/ciggies? Does THAT bother you? Not me.. I just pay the going price and that's that. Life's too short to worry about tax after the event. Who's going to be sad enough to look at a receipt for that DVD and say "do you know, 39p of that was GST!" ...?!

Don't get me wrong, I think GST is wrong in many many ways, but this issue is a non-starter!

Steering the topic in a slightly different direction - the JEP kindly absorbing the GST by keeping the price 45p. It wasn't that long ago that it rose from 40p, so perhaps, just perhaps, they factored in GST in advance at that point?

Jsysco

Sorry... think i misunderstood the issue when i first read it, if it's just an extra line on the receipt calculating 3% of whatever the total was there's little point.

From what I understand, goods on the shelves must indicate prices including GST, so effectively all the consumer will notice next Tuesday is that everything's gone up. However, nobody's going to question whether these prices reflect a 3% increase or something more....

It's kinda reviving the dead issue of when GST should be charged, but if it were at the till, THEN it would be nice to see that only 3% had been added to the previous price of goods.

As it stands, retailers can add whatever they like to their prices (+12.5% in the case of the 5p JEP price increase) and come next Tuesday, there's not a thing we can do about it!

Paul

I was in the Co-op earlier to get a few things. Its looks to me like they have put retails up by 3% then added the GST on top of that. I hope I am wrong but I don’t think so

David Rotherham

No: Shops, although not wholesalers, have to add the tax into the price. They may, if they want, and most do, tell you how much of the final total was tax on the receipt.

Paul

Yes I do understand that, what I am saying is compared to my last months shopping the retails on a lot of the products I bought have gone up before GST. I was in the Co-op yesterday to check a few things and the same products have gone up again for the GST. It looks to me like the Co-op has put a lot of their retails up before GST and has now put GST on the inflated retails.

UserName

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AHITS

"Kindly absorbed"? From what I can see it's more likely they had no choice.

I know a lot of people who've stopped buying the JEP over the past few years, simply because it's no longer the necessity it once was. I know a lot of people who've stopped buying this year in the wake of the paper so blatantly revealing itself to be Frank Walker's propaganda machine. And, after the last price rise, just about everyone I know said that when it hits 50p, it won't be worth buying.

So it looks to me like the JEP had two choices.

1) Raise the price and lose those customers who've been having doubts about the JEP's value for money. End result, dent in profits with no chance of repair.

2) Absorb GST, which means a small cost to the company itself. However, at no extra cost to the customer this ensures the paper cling onto their current readership....for now.

They probably tossed a coin to decide. Correction, they probably asked Frank Walker to toss a coin for them, borrowed from Terry Le Sueur....

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ascottboy

I got charged gst on the jep yesterday! i will take that up with the shop i got it from!

UserName

Ooops, I've just been sad enough to look at my CoOp receipt and see I just paid 12p GST
No that it bother me too much.. just curious.

Also curious why my sandwich as a "use by" date on it.. are there any other uses for a sandwich other than eating?

Paul

Can you imagine if by law you did not have to put a sell by date on your sandwich. Empire Catering would be knocking out some very dodgy sadwiches, not that a little thing like a sell by date helps to much anyway.