Because you should bloody well pay for the roads!!!
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define a cycle light....
And i am being serious.
There are very very few legal lights for sale in the UK, the police may not pull you up for having an illegal light because you have something.
Just something to think about.
In the event of an accident insurance companies being as they are....
Loads of issues relating to legality of lights and tax loopholes.
Because lights can be had so cheaply knocking VAT off will make sod all difference to their take-up? Idiots who ride at night with no lights havent made a conscious decision based on a cost benefit analysis and their financial circumstances, they're just stupid.
There's normally no VAT to pay on Chinese wowshine/veryfire/sobright/muchlight (or whatever the current flavour of the month is) setups everyone buys from Hong Kong on eBay or DX anyway
It's an interesting idea in theory, but unworkable in practice. What about bikes that come with lights? What about lights that are not compliant with the ISO standards? What about dynamo systems?
vat off road lights, ie led blinkers yeah good idea. VAT off 5000lumen superlights is taking the piss tho.
Remove VAT from brake pads as well. And pads and discs on cars.
And remove VAT from tyres. They're not a luxury and if you don't have them you will crash badly very quickly.
Aside from the fact that implementing this would be a nightmare, trying to define what is and isn't a bike light, and the fact that lights good enough to be seen by are now so cheap that knocking 20% really doesn't make much difference, how would you propose funding this tax cut?
There's a broader argument to be made for removing/reducing VAT on bikes, given the huge health benefits. I guess that's Cycle To Work.
There's no VAT on Jaffa Cakes. And they ARE a luxury*
*for a given definition of luxury
cars are luxury items and there's absolutely no need to encourage driving.And pads and discs on cars.
What about removing vat from everything? Where's that petition?