Re: FN-FORUM: Charging for payments

date posted 9th January 2006 16:40

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:02:51PM -0000, Damon Birch wrote:
>
> >For this scam to work they had to get your agreement to 'buy' a financial
> >service from them. 'pointing out' was not good enough - since the decision
> >on how they spent the money of the sale is up to them but they would
> >still need to pay VAT on the full amount.
>
>
> I though the High Court had ruled the scam was legal, where it was a
> separate company processing the payment, even if that company was owned by
> the same holding company i.e., M&S retail use M&S cc services.

The VAT man that I spoke to said that it went to appeal. Other than that I
don't know.

> I don't know if they still do but a number of travel agents used to charge
> 1% more to pay by CC rather than debit card / cash. I always though it would
> be great booking a ?10k holiday and paying in fivers.

I must admit that I prefer to pay by CC since I then get protection against them
going bust -- something that these people seem to do more than the average builder :-(

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