retired_ks reddy

In Gib there really are some dirt poor people. Never once heard them complain that it's unfair they have to pay more than the UK for UK goods. Shipping costs money.

retired_jhr2211

*bangs head*

Can you please read the posts and understand, its not about shipping, hell thatd be 5% on top of minus VAT prices.

Its about paying VAT prices + shipping + afurther GST.

Read the posts in the the gov.je links, read the posts in the ft and the reposte mentioned and read my own posts which make it clear where the average family lies.

Its not in this 5 * average UK area that you claim it to be.

retired_jhr2211

and thisisjersey links to the JEP which is an independant local reporting company (well independant enough if you compare it to UK broadsheets).

retired_ks reddy

Didn't say you all were. But Jersey has more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the UK, and many are very, very rich. Of course, if you started forcing them to pay for nursery places for other peoples' kids and the disadvantaged in Kingstown you'd soon find yourselves with rather fewer millionaires so it's a catch-22.

The GST is the sales tax? You don't pay VAT. It's like the Canaries - no IVA (Spanish VAT) but delivery costs and the local 6% sales tax makes everything more expensive anyway. As I said, price of island life.

Still not sure what the 0/10 point is?

retired_ks reddy

That's not what I claimed at all. I said "And the average income on Jersey is twice that of the rest of the UK", which it is. I then postulated that due to the disproportionate number of extremely rich people, the average net worth might be 5* that of the UK. What's the average property price on Jersey?

retired_jhr2211

nnnggg, we do pay VAT, thats the whole point.

What dont you understand about 0/10? the end taxpayer does not get the reward of corporate tax income because banking revenue tax isnt "remitted" within the budget blackhole we have (see earlier citations).

Of course we have more millionaires per capita, we only have 80,000 people and they are 1(1)K residents for a reason.

http://www.thisisjersey.com/code/sho...ticleID=000033

Of course we dont higher tax these 1(1)K residents (actually not resident, just tax evading).

Higher taxing for the 1(1)K wouldnt puch them out, the tax evasion and EUSD "disclosure" directives and lack of legislature for encoporating new regimes (see MiFID) is still a draw for them.

Pity the end and low income family sees nothing of it.

retired_ks reddy

Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is how it's anyone else's fault?

retired_jhr2211

Average property price?

Well 1 bedroom apartment is about £230K €350,000...

up to 5 bedroom house with garden and sea view for about

£5.2mio or about €7.8 mio

Id say the average three bedroom family home costs about £500,000 or €750,000

retired_ks reddy

You don't pay VAT.

But you pay more because you're an island and a small market. I pay 50% over UK prices for my marmite here, but it's something I accept as the price of exile.

Are you Jersey born and bred?

retired_ks reddy

Just under 5* the UK average?