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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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oooOOooo now this is a debate I like 
They are indeed a biscuit with a cake base 
For the record I dunk mine in coffee and my daughter dunks hers in orange squash !!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hmrc took mcvities to court wanting to charge vat claiming they were a biscuit. To prove a point mcvities brought out a larger cake sized Jaffa cake
Judge ruled that they are a cake.
So Jaffa cakes by legal definition are definitely a cake |
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It has been proven in court that they are a cake. Britain charges value added tax on biscuits covered in chocolate but not chocolate covered cakes so they had to prove Jaffa cakes were indeed cakes and not biscuits in disguise  |
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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago
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Same type of story as Pringles.
The makers tried to say Pringles were not crisps as they were made up of only 42% potato and as such did not have to pay VAT. Court of appeal said, no they are crisps. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A biscuit or a cake?  "
Cake! This was decided by court some time ago in a row over vAT (which is on biscuits [sweets] but not cakes[food]).
They are cakes because they go HARD when stale. Biscuits go SOFT. Simples... |
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By *riendly foeWoman
over a year ago
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"Cake. Small but definitely a cake.So why are the always in the biscuit isles in supermarkets?"
Its a cake....Less tax
In buscuit aisle because people would panic and think none left and would start riot in supermarket  |
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"Don't forget chocolate tea cakes. HMRC lost a 13 year case against M&S, who proved that the comestible in question was a cake and therefore exempt from VAT."
Yes, we remember that. Of course everyone who had paid the VAT got a refund, didn't they. I mean HMRC wouldn't keep illegally obtained money would they ? |
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By *quirrelMan
over a year ago
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The definition of a cake and a biscuit which was thrashed out in a court of law to determine HMRC'S case was based on its state after a period of time had elapsed. according to the law:-
A cake goes hard if stale.
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A biscuit goes soft when it is stale.
Don't know what a jaffa cake is though because they don't last long enough to discover if they go hard or soft if left too long. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don't forget chocolate tea cakes. HMRC lost a 13 year case against M&S, who proved that the comestible in question was a cake and therefore exempt from VAT.
Yes, we remember that. Of course everyone who had paid the VAT got a refund, didn't they. I mean HMRC wouldn't keep illegally obtained money would they ?"
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