Important announcement

[dave.woodhall]

Subscribers will get the full details at the end of the season but at the moment there's going to be a choice for anyone with outstanding monies:
a) Transfer to digital for however long they have left (adjustments will be made for overseas)
b) Donation to Acorns
c) Refund.

[Ad@m]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

[dave.woodhall]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

[Ad@m]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

But no business (regardless of what it supplies) has to charge VAT unless it hits the VAT registration threshold, currently set at £79,000.

[London Villan]

Cheers for the hard work, there can't be many better, more credible or long lasting fanzines than H&V. It can't have been easy getting the thing printed and paid for every issue over the last 25 years either.

[dave.woodhall]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

But no business (regardless of what it supplies) has to charge VAT unless it hits the VAT registration threshold, currently set at £79,000.

We get charged VAT by the digital suppliers; we don't by the printer.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

How bizarre.

[Ad@m]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

How bizarre.

VAT legislation is bizarre - childrens' clothes don't carry VAT, adults do.  Cakes don't carry VAT, biscuits do.  Oranges don't, orange juice does.  There's almost no sense to it.

[dave.woodhall]

During the nineties there was a big debate about putting VAT on publications (the "tax on learning") and it was so controversial that the government backed down. There were no digital publications then so no need for a decision.

[MarkM]

The price will be around the same as VAT now has to be added and set-up costs are comparatively high for short runs such as ours - Private Eye, we ain't.

Blame the accountant in me for this but do you really trigger the VAT threshold?  You'd need to sell more than 39,500 copies a year to do so - I don't want you giving the government 40p a copy unneccesarily (although this may result in you being labelled a despicable tax avoider on here!).

Paper copies are VAT free. Digital copies aren't.

How bizarre.

VAT legislation is bizarre - childrens' clothes don't carry VAT, adults do.  Cakes don't carry VAT, biscuits do.  Oranges don't, orange juice does.  There's almost no sense to it.

If you could devise a Tax system more complicated than our VAT system it would be a miracle

[UK Redsox]

But no business (regardless of what it supplies) has to charge VAT unless it hits the VAT registration threshold, currently set at £79,000.

We get charged VAT by the digital suppliers; we don't by the printer.

Will you be over the sales threshold for VAT registration or are you voluntarily registered ?

[UK Redsox]

VAT legislation is bizarre - childrens' clothes don't carry VAT, adults do.  Cakes don't carry VAT, biscuits do.  Oranges don't, orange juice does.  There's almost no sense to it.

There was a thread a while ago where I babbled on about VAT on kangeroos

[andrew08]

It has been part of the VP furniture in its written format , but time moves on so here's to the next 25 years.

I've seen DW outside countless away ends but only ever spotted him once inside the ground. That was San Jose away!

[Clampy]

I've seen DW outside countless away ends but only ever spotted him once inside the ground.

Now you come to mention it, I've never seen him inside a ground either.

[eastie]

During the nineties there was a big debate about putting VAT on publications (the "tax on learning") and it was so controversial that the government backed down. There were no digital publications then so no need for a decision.

How many copies of the print edition do you usually order dave ?
Also how well is the digital version going sales wise as it's been out around a year now ?