In news:rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough >
posted on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:39:15 +0100 the following:

> The message >
> from Dan Abel > contains these words:
>
> > Read the article again. I don't know how it works in Australia, but the
> > article said the VAT tax is different depending on whether a cookie is
> > purchased in the bakery or the restaurant.
>
> In the UK there's no VAT on food bought direct from stores; but there
> is VAT on food eaten in restaurants .

In Texas, there are no sales taxes on hamburger buns, hamburger meat,
pickles, tomatoes, mayonnaise or lettuce, but if you go into a restaurant
and have those items combined to form a hamburger, there is a sales tax on
that.

Damaeus
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