Unlike France and Germany, where they are patriotic and tend to buy cars manufactured by French and Germans respectively, we have a culture of buying cars manufactured in other countries. As well as the obvious tax implications - i.e. a BMW made in Germany will have VAT levied there, which will thus go into the German economy instead of ours - those involved in the manufacturing process and the car's production up to the point it leaves a foreign country will earn money and pay tax in that country. If all of the production of the car took place in the UK, ALL of that money would go into our economy. I suspect the figure is so astronomical that the lack of patriotism shown by buyers of foreign-built cars will be truly astounding - bordering on treason!!
2006-07-31
21:00:02
·
6 answers
·
asked by
Essex Ron
5
in
Buying & Selling