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Tolls and VAT

  • 07-08-2010 4:39pm
    #1
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,845 ✭✭✭✭


    Hmm, just got my monthly statement from E-Trip and it appears that there's now VAT added on every toll. This is news to me!

    Before there would be a number of passes that had 0% VAT. I know the Port Tunnel was one and I think the M50 was another.

    I'm too tired to figure it out at the moment but just thought I'd point it out as this is the first I've heard of it!


Comments

  • #2
    Ali Babba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ali Babba


    This came in fairly recently as far as I know, there's also VAT on parking too, an EU tax apparently, just one of many in dear old Ireland. How in the name of Je$us Christ we're supposed to be competitive with the rest of Europe with all these taxes is beyond me!


  • #3
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Afaik, these changes are to bring us in line with the rest of the EC.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,845 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Thanks for the replies folks :) One advantage is it makes it quicker to adding to spreadsheet anyway as it's just the 1 figure for vat now :P


  • #5
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,123 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    They've added VAT to the bill, but it's still the same price. Won't be long before the price rises though.


  • #6
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,047 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Del2005 wrote: »
    Won't be long before the price rises though.
    Yes especially seeing as 85cent of every €1 taken in tax this year is getting pumped in to the Anglo black hole.


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  • #7
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/mail-on-sunday-london-england-the/mi_8003/is_2010_Jan_24/eu-judgment-huge-rise-tolls/ai_n48718789/


  • #8
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Ali Babba wrote: »
    an EU tax apparently, just one of many in dear old Ireland. How in the name of Je$us Christ we're supposed to be competitive with the rest of Europe with all these taxes is beyond me!
    If it's an EU tax then won't the rest of the EU be paying it too?


  • #9
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,414 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    Anan1 wrote: »
    If it's an EU tax then won't the rest of the EU be paying it too?

    We used to pay VAT on tolls for the M50 when it was privately held. Business could reclaim this VAT. When the government took over the M50, they said they couldn't charge VAT but kept the price the same. This amounted to a 21% increase for businesses.

    Now the government has decided that it should charge VAT on top of the current price. In this case it won't effect business as they can go back to reclaiming the VAT, but for the average person its a 21% increase.


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