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13 Nov 2006, 1:36 am

Of next week it will possible to buy tax free alcohol on the internet. The EU has the power to overrule what Britain want to do. This mean cheep alcohol for and fags. More smokers and drinkers for the NHS and Police to pick the pieces. Georden brown will look elsewhere to rise the taxes lost or cut public spending, naturally effecting those who choose not to smoke or drink. 



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13 Nov 2006, 7:52 pm

Someone has to be effected - If it werent the smokers/drinkers it will be someone else



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13 Nov 2006, 7:56 pm

And those are cigarettes, right?


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13 Nov 2006, 8:05 pm

HMRC (or the Customs component at least) is not the friendliest body in the world. They simply ignore what the law says and make it up as they go along. Customs can seize people's goods and cars when legally (or morally) they have no right to do so and you try getting your goods back off them. Basically, they are above the law.

There's no way on Earth the Customs people will accept this. Too much tax at stake for our wonderful government.



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13 Nov 2006, 8:06 pm

Oh, my, goodness!


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14 Nov 2006, 1:43 pm

larsenjw92286 wrote:
And those are cigarettes, right?


Yes. In the UK "fag" is slang for "cigarette".


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14 Nov 2006, 1:46 pm

Tequila wrote:
HMRC (or the Customs component at least) is not the friendliest body in the world. They simply ignore what the law says and make it up as they go along. Customs can seize people's goods and cars when legally (or morally) they have no right to do so and you try getting your goods back off them. Basically, they are above the law.

There's no way on Earth the Customs people will accept this. Too much tax at stake for our wonderful government.


They do the same thing here in Sweden. The fun thing is that our countries are actually violating the EU laws with that.

By the way, customs people and cops are as criminal scums themselves as the "real" criminals. Nice cops and customs people are by large exceptions.


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14 Nov 2006, 3:17 pm

It means "homosexual" here.

Sorry for being inappropriate!


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14 Nov 2006, 6:42 pm

larsenjw92286 wrote:
It means "homosexual" here.

Sorry for being inappropriate!


Same her too but I cant remember it being used last decade though.



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14 Nov 2006, 7:45 pm

Do you mean to say it is the same in England?


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15 Nov 2006, 2:30 am

He means people generally know what it means (through American TV, and so on) but people never use it in that sense here. It always refers to cigarettes.



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15 Nov 2006, 3:13 pm

I know people there watch "Seinfeld" and such, but people must have seen TV worse than that show.


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15 Nov 2006, 3:24 pm

Yeah, it's on TV here but most people I know don't watch it. British TV is filled with all sorts of cheap crap these days.



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15 Nov 2006, 4:45 pm

Aspie_Chav wrote:
Of next week it will possible to buy tax free alcohol on the internet. The EU has the power to overrule what Britain want to do. This mean cheep alcohol for and fags. More smokers and drinkers for the NHS and Police to pick the pieces. Georden brown will look elsewhere to rise the taxes lost or cut public spending, naturally effecting those who choose not to smoke or drink. 


the thing is though, fags and alcohol are highly unfairly taxed here in the uk. if it wasn't for this fact, people wouldn't need to import cheap fags and drink from europe.


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15 Nov 2006, 5:20 pm

peebo wrote:
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Of next week it will possible to buy tax free alcohol on the internet. The EU has the power to overrule what Britain want to do. This mean cheep alcohol for and fags. More smokers and drinkers for the NHS and Police to pick the pieces. Georden brown will look elsewhere to rise the taxes lost or cut public spending, naturally effecting those who choose not to smoke or drink. 


the thing is though, fags and alcohol are highly unfairly taxed here in the uk. if it wasn't for this fact, people wouldn't need to import cheap fags and drink from europe.


I consider this an issue against government and not taxes.. Quite frankly, why should these things be taxed over something else? Its hypocrisy at its finest



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15 Nov 2006, 5:46 pm

fags and boose are things that we do not need. They are both detremental to our sociaty especially here in Britain.