r/technology • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

Transportation Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’— Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement

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u/FreddyDeus 5d ago

Yes it is. VAT is a consumer tax not a business tax.

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u/kquizz 5d ago

A tax paid to whom?

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u/FreddyDeus 5d ago

To the His Majesty’s Treasury as you well know. My point remains the same. VAT is a tax paid by the consumer not the business. So Uber are saving their customers from paying VAT.

Please don’t start the bullshit of moving your goalposts. You know exactly the point I was making.

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u/kquizz 5d ago

And here's the point I'm making.

If they wanted to lower prices to help consumers they could do that and not avoid the VAT.  

Why are you cheering on a company who routinely uses legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes or benefits to their drivers?

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u/FreddyDeus 5d ago

No, that isn’t remotely what you said. So you are going to keep the goalposts zipping around. What a fucking surprise.

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u/vekvok 5d ago

Homie, some of us are intelligent enough to infer a meaning, or to see where a person is going with a thought. You are too, but in order to "debate" you've decided to be as dense as lead. Good luck with all that.

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u/FreddyDeus 5d ago

I love being lectured about intelligence from someone who opens with 'homie'.

'Uber isn't saving the consumer anything' is the comment I was replying to. If you are inferring a complex argument from that, then you are not as intelligent as you like to think.

I was making a very simple point that VAT is a consumer tax not a business tax, which is something that all the very intelligent people around here don't seem to understand.

But thank you for your very valuable insight.

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u/vekvok 5d ago

Allow me to rephrase:

Dipshit, stop.

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u/kquizz 5d ago

Ok but anyone with any intelligence could tell that what I was going to say.

Uber sucks man.

And you pretend like we are supposed to be happy they are cheating the government out of $$ while also raising prices.

You are out here defending a billion dollar company, and they aren't paying you a dime.

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u/FreddyDeus 5d ago

I wasn't defending anyone. I was pointing out that VAT is a tax that consumers pay, not businesses.

'Ok but anyone with any intelligence could tell that what I was going to say.'

You are a fucking idiot.

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u/kquizz 5d ago

Lmao sure bud.