Government to put vat on childrens clothes

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Have heard from someone who works in the public sector that there is to be vat added to children's clothes and shoes.
Also there will be charges on food waste unless it is for legitimate reasons ie fruit and vegetable peelings or meat and fish bones.

Can't wait for the op to come back and share more pearls of wisdom

let the countdown to thread deletion begin....

This would take the wind out of the sails of the very short, tiny women who love to come on MN threads about clothing and brag about never having to pay VAT on their (child-sized) clothes!!

I would have thought food waste was good for the economy.People are spending more...

Every cloud 😁

Re OP's username, I was wondering what on earth a mother with a very 'productive' cold had to do with anything?!

This thread is part of a circle jerk to create noise on the internet that the medias bot-scrapers will interpret as "news" and uncritically start posting "You won't believe what Labours next tax will be ..." style clickbait. Which will prompt a flurry of MN posts about that very "fact",

All of which reduces the resources available for real news.

What do you think will be recognised as a 'legitimate reason' for throwing food away? Fussy toddlers? Eating disorder? Mounjaro?

I might confess all my most shameful sins here, and watch them go poof into the cyber-ether without me even having to say a Hail Mary.

Bollocks

Twatty McTwatface, as I live and breathe!

Is this charges on commercial food waste? Ie to encourage supermarkets to give away 'best before' stuff instead of chucking it?

Someone who works in the public sector eh? Must be true then 🙄

Good idea

Oh please make these stupid threads stop.

“The public sector” covers everything from your local lollipop person, to the Prime Minister … 99.99% of these people will have no idea what is in the budget

You may as well say they are taxing beards, Windows and cats ..

We might need a new board called 'Budget Misinformation'

Why speculate now we’ll know in 2 days time

I heard from someone that they are planning a tax on unnecessary threads 🤔

What tosh. They don’t fine people for putting the wrong things in their rubbish or recycling bin so why and how would they implement this for food waste? In my area some people have food waste collection from the council so they’re basically voluntarily paying a fine already.

In my opinion it makes more sense to collect it for free (but not encourage food wastage). So it stays out of landfill and incinerators and is used to make compost (which is sold on anyway) to improve the quality of the country’s soil which is rapidly decreasing.

If the fines/taxes are implemented (which they won’t be) it will be just another thing that passes the buck and guilt from big companies that create huge amounts of waste (like supermarkets) to the average person who is just throwing away scraps and inedible things

As this is pure rumour, it's probably that the government is not "thinking" about this at all.

Obviously a total wind up.

VAT on children’s clothes will be fine. The zero rating of children’s clothes comes from the 1970s when kids clothes were extortionate. We have lots of really cheap options now. Much better to simplify the VAT legislation than keep in that flowchart which dictates how much rabbit fur you are allowed on a kids coat to keep the zero rating, etc.

I reckon no less real than some of the stuff in the Tory graph or the daily fail.
Seems the chancellor is keeping details under wraps until the day whereas the last government couldn't keep a secret and spilled all the details just to see how the public, press and city would react.