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Your thoughts on the 1p tax on self service?

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

To me it's only 1p it's not that big of a deal that people make it out to be and it's an attempt to raise £30m ... Most the the stuff we buy is usually 99p 1.99 etc so that wasteful penny that we get can easily go to it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7053191/amp/Shoppers-face-paying-extra-penny-using-self-scan-tills.html

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Surely if we are scanning our goods, we are doing part of the job of the shops ? I’d want a reduction in price, not a tax

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By *edmark07Man over a year ago

liverpool

If they want to raise money they should close the tax loopholes the rich and big companies abuse not stealth tax the massmarket again. They rely on us just accepting it because it's only a penny

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I pay enough for fuck all in this overtaxed bullshit country pennys make pounds

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan over a year ago

Aylesbury

It's nuts! If they really wanted to get people interacting more they should ban them not tax them. So this whole tax thing is a typical of pro-austerity politicians.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I see that the panel is being chaired by Chucka Umuna

He seems determined to make himself incredibly unpopular with voters

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan over a year ago

Sussex

"Surely if we are scanning our goods, we are doing part of the job of the shops ? I’d want a reduction in price, not a tax "

Hear hear!

Just like local street parking charges, this looks like the thin end of a big wedge. Governments of all colours need to learn how to budget properly rather than just put another tap into the public coffers.

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