Mehrwertsteuerermäßigungsmissbrauch

Im Zusammenhang mit einer Mehrwertsteuerprivilegierung von Kinderkleidung sorgte sich Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber in seiner Funktion als Chancellor of the Exchequer 1973 um die skandalöse Überprivilegierung dünner Frauen –

But it is essential that the criteria should be altered. And for this reason. One of the aspects of this matter which has throughout troubled successive Chancellors has been the very considerable Toggle showing location of Column 276 abuse of the relief for young children’s clothing. It has been estimated that as much as 25 per cent. of so-called young children’s clothing which is exempt from purchase tax is in fact worn by adults. This is, of course, to make a complete nonsense of the relief, and unfortunately it is no part of my responsibility as Chancellor of the Exchequer to add to the many advantages already enjoyed by slim and nubile young women.

I therefore asked Customs and Excise to see whether they could not work out a more restrictive scheme, in order to cut the abuse to the minimum. This they have done, though they will, I suspect, have needed all their ingenuity to deal with a situation where, for instance – so the Customs experts tell me – the waist measurement of the current Miss World is that of an average young girl of 12.

Baron Barbers Mischung aus gesellschaftlicher Engherzigkeit und Sexismus ist mehr als 50 Jahre später erstaunlich aktuell.

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