Hi Danny
Compliments of the season to you too - and the others who visit this forum.
Thanks for your piece on how VAT originated - very enlightening!
However, since we joined the EU things have not greatly improved - see some of the different rates of EU VAT below - the poor residents of Denmark seem to suffer most of all.
Fully list here for those interested:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs...t_rates_en.pdf