General Discussion

Did anyone notice in the budget that hairdressers chairs are no longer VAT exempt.

So now we know how Georgie boy is paying for the £17500 kick-back per year to the rich - it's an indirect taxation on every member of the population. Haircut prices will have to go up to pay for the additional VAT. If they just go up by 10p per cut and everyone in the population has a haircut say on average once a month then that's £80 million a year. - not quite enough to meet the rich cronies bill but getting there.

And he has us over a barrel because if we all just rebel, return to hippy 60s days and let our hair grow it would put more people (hairdressers) out of work, which we don't want.

VAT does not work that way. It will only affect the price in very small hairdressers who´s turnover does not reach the VAT registration level.(71K) At todays prices all high street salons would be above that level. In which case VAT on the chair would be reclaimed against VAT charged to you, the customer. The government would receive VAT to the value of 20% of the haircut only.

I would suggest that any high street ladies hairdressers not registered are under declaring, and therefore on the fiddle.

Thanks Taverner. Shame. Seemed like a cunning plan that Baldrick would have been proud of!!