Maybe I'm labouring under an old loophole long since closed - but my point about it not always people being envious still stands.
This article discusses the so-called toothbrush loophole as recently as 2006 www.taxationweb.co.uk/forum/dentist-t14274.html but it used to be a much larger loophole as I understand it - closed pre 1994 according to this one www.taxationweb.co.uk/tax-articles/vat/vat-refund-opportunities.html.
Only being a tax payer rather than a tax expert I have no real idea what the benefit might have been, but there was definitely some dodge which was exploited.
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