Snowballs all round!

[Beebo]

The latest crazy VAT court case revolved around the Tunnocks Snowball.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...o-rule-over-2.8m-Snowball-snack-tax-case.html
You'll all be please to hear that they are now classed as a cake and therefore zero rated for VAT. Quite how the tax man ever thought they were a biscuit is beyond me.

So in celebration I'm offering a free snowball to every CC member.
Here you go!

 

[accountantpete]

They were the size of a grapefruit when I were a lad.

 

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 3151671, member: 259"]Surely biscuits have to be a bit crunchy. Even Jaffa cakes aren't that squishy.[/QUOTE]
if you read the article, the judges agreed with you, having been:
" presented with a plate of Jaffa Cakes, Bakewell tarts, tea cakes, Lees Snowballs, Waitrose meringues and mini jam snow cakes as they deliberated "

 

[Beebo]

What is the bit at the bottom?

Don't get technical.
Cheese cake has a digestive base, so it should be subject to half VAT.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Yum, I bloomin love those things

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Don't get technical.
Cheese cake has a digestive base, so it should be subject to half VAT.

That made me chuckle

 

[Fnaar]

How could they be considered biscuits? That... erm... takes the biscuit.

 

[vernon]

They were the size of a grapefruit when I were a lad.

They were football sized when my dad were a lad.

 

[young Ed]

They were football sized when my dad were a lad.

and when my great, great grandad were a lad they were.....
Cheers Ed

 

[vernon]

and when my great, great grandad were a lad they were.....
Cheers Ed

The size of grapes because they hadn't perfected scaling up the recipe.

 

[EltonFrog]

I thought this going to be about Warninks Advocaat and lemonade!

 

[vernon]

The Jaffa Cake, is it a cake or a biscuit?, battle with a mis-applied VAT rating was won by the argument stale cakes go hard and stale biscuits go soft.

http://www.jaffa-cakes.com/jaffa-cakes-biscuits-name

Snowballs can't be judged by this criteria.

On the subject of Tunnocks' products, I sampled their caramel logs while cycling in Scotland last week. I intend to raise a petition to make them widely available in Southern Britain.

They are divine!

 

[vernon]

I thought this going to be about Warninks Advocaat and lemonade!

How old are you? Ninety?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The Jaffa Cake, is it a cake or a biscuit?, battle with a mis-applied VAT rating was won by the argument stale cakes go hard and stale biscuits go soft.

http://www.jaffa-cakes.com/jaffa-cakes-biscuits-name

Snowballs can't be judged by this criteria.

On the subject of Tunnocks' products, I sampled their caramel logs while cycling in Scotland last week. I intend to raise a petition to make them widely available in Southern Britain.

They are divine!

Waitrose all across southern England stock them.

And the plain chocolate tea cakes and caramel wafers.

I love John Lewis

 

[EltonFrog]

How old are you? Ninety?

My mum used make them at Christmas, my first alcoholic drink what I was a kid.