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Quotes About VAT

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
~ Sadie Frost
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
~ W. C. Fields
I don't see how a lowering of VAT helps much, in terms of stimulus. VAT is a form of sales tax. It gets paid when you spend. A stimulus should put money in your pocket before you have actually spent the money.
~ Kwasi Kwarteng
And of course there are all sorts of tax advantages. It's a bonded warehouse. No VAT. And no capital gains tax either because you're talking about a wasting chattel.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The S. D. D. comes out in June, I'm told. Prepublication sales have been quite good and Cape are reissuing STG and Less Than Angels. I don't think I shall ever be liable for VAT but I have bought a new account book (as advised in the last no. of The Author – I expect sales have shot up!). But the main thing is to feel that I am now regarded as a novelist, a good feeling after all those years of 'This is well written, but…
~ Barbara Pym
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
~ Dan Fogler
I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.
~ James Mirrlees
zippy new tax called VAT, which was to be introduced a week or so later. The gist of the advertisement was that while some things would go up in price with VAT, some things would also go down. (Ha!) I
~ Bill Bryson
A consumption tax like the VAT is paid by everybody, including those who pay no income tax and those who are in the country illegally.
~ T.R. Reid
What a magnificent creature. A killing machine of great beauty, who had the wydring way. An alchemist could not have grown a more perfect specimen in a vat.
~ Storm Constantine
Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.
~ Kwasi Kwarteng
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow