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'LIVEWIRE?' · 23rd Apr 2019, 8:30 am

Other things aside, Purchase Tax was a high percentage (35% if I've done my sums right?) of the basic price. At today's VAT rate of 20%, that TR11 would only have been £13.51 instead of £15.225-a considerable saving in the 1960s

23rd Apr 2019, 8:30 am	#18
'LIVEWIRE?' Rest in Peace Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.W. Oxfordshire(Chipping Norton) Posts: 7,306	Re: Bush TR91 Other things aside, Purchase Tax was a high percentage (35% if I've done my sums right?) of the basic price. At today's VAT rate of 20%, that TR11 would only have been £13.51 instead of £15.225-a considerable saving in the 1960s