"Huge" wrote in message
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It's actually illegal to display only ex-VAT prices. This is, of
course
so people don't realise how much they're being ripped off.


No, it was to stop retailers ripping off customers, by displaying one
price and charging another - after all if the customer can't work out
what the VAT percentage is of the marked price what chance of them
being able to work out the percentage that should be added to a
ex-VAT price.

It was even more of a problem when it was not clear if the price
quoted was ex-VAT or inc-VAT, one could get charged twice for the
VAT!..