A new potato crisp VAT judgment just landed.

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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”

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