On Dec 1, 8:44*am, R D S wrote:
nightjar cpb@ wrote:
The rate change has produced a huge amount of work for no
practical advantage.

No, no, the tills will be ringing, the prospect of saving £1 in every
£40 will have people flocking in spending their redundancy money.

A lot of people seem to be confused and think that prices will come
down by 2.5%.

The saving of 2.5% VAT on £40 (inc VAT) is only 85p.

The prospect is one of saving £1 in every £47.

MBQ