
Have your cake and eat it, but is it VAT-free?
In a ruling*, reminiscent of the Jaffa cakes/biscuits story, the FTT has ruled that products described as flapjacks were not cakes. Cakes are classed as zero rated for VAT purposes, and therefore this ruling meant that these flapjacks were indeed subject to VAT at the standard rate. The Vat Food
