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28 August 2014
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Shopping & VAT
How do you work out VAT?
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You’re enrolling on a course and you need to buy some gear — a PC, a digital camera and a scanner.

The prices you find on the web are a bit confusing, though - some are advertised with 17.5% VAT included, and others show the price before the VAT is added, or ex VAT.

How do you work it all out?

Go to the next screen to start looking at ways of working out VAT.





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