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rwmjtoday at 4:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

The Economist has this crazy graph of UK VAT thresholds and how they are causing companies to stay small, to keep their turnover under the threshold which avoids a lot of paperwork. It's the most infuriating thing, we are literally throttling our companies, the engines of growth, because of some accounting stupidity.

Graph: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600,quality=10... from this article: https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/04/22/how-to-fix-brit...