Well, blow me down with a feather, I've got a letter published in the Telegraph today in response to a letter from Christine Brookfield who is struggling with a small business in the recession - she is calling for V.A.T. to be reduced. It's been cut quite a bit, but none the less its there - and its message which was:
Sir – Christine Brookfield has my sympathy. It is not easy running a small business in a recession.
She suggests that the best way to help would be to reduce VAT, which was my sentiment exactly in the recession of the early 1990s.
I wrote to the then Chancellor and was informed that the lowest VAT rate allowed by the EU was 15 per cent.
I have been a euro-sceptic ever since.
Derek Bennett, Walsall, Staffordshire.
Sir – Christine Brookfield has my sympathy. It is not easy running a small business in a recession.
She suggests that the best way to help would be to reduce VAT, which was my sentiment exactly in the recession of the early 1990s.
I wrote to the then Chancellor and was informed that the lowest VAT rate allowed by the EU was 15 per cent.
I have been a euro-sceptic ever since.
Derek Bennett, Walsall, Staffordshire.
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