A new potato crisp VAT judgment just landed.
Walkers’ Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus
“To rapidly summarise a complicated courtroom clash, Walkers tried the following arguments to get Sensations Poppadoms off the VAT hook:
They are not ready for human consumption
They are not a potato product
They don’t *taste* like a potato product
They’re not like crisps
They’re not like crisps because they’re part of a meal
They’re not like crisps because they aren’t packaged like crisps
They’re not like crisps because they are called poppadoms
They’re not like crisps because they don’t look like crisps
They’re not like crisps because they don’t work like crisps
They’re not like crisps because they don’t do the same things in your mouth that crisps do
They’re not like crisps because the public doesn’t think of them like crisps
Taxing Sensations Poppadoms but not conventional poppadoms will distort UK markets”
@alexlomas Was not expecting to lose an hour reading and researching this...
