That bad Mike, he'll be adding VAT to food and children's clothing next.
VAT is a strange thing though. Apparantly there's no VAT on children's clothing, but there is VAT for clothing for adults to wear.
However, Wor Lass is only 5' 1" tall and weighs in at around 8 stones in her thong, so there are childrens clothes she can purchase and wear.
On the extremely rare occassion she buys a 'child's' item of clothing for her own personal use, I always remark to the shop assistant that it will be worn by an adult and to add the VAT on.
They never seem to understand.
Maybe Mike has just confused the complex VAT rules this country has.