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VATupdate Newsletter Week 41 2023

Realisation

When was the last time you did something for the first time? I’m learning new things every day, even unintentionally. My daughter showing me new trends on her phone, my dad telling me something about my granddad that he hadn’t told me before, and even my girlfriend, who tells me often the same thing twice, but I didn’t hear it the first time…

But learning and realising something aren’t the same. You may also have had these moments that you see or hear or experience something, and only then realise how you interpreted that wrong your whole life. Often, you don’t even want to know it, let alone share those moments with someone, because they can be embarrassing.

So let me enlighten you  on some things that I realised, or that I heard from others.

  • Worms don’t come out of the ground when it rains because they like the wet weather. It’s because otherwise they’re drowning in the grass.
  • You can preheat the shower before getting in. You don’t have to stand in the shower, turn on the water, and quickly press yourself against the far wall to avoid the cold.
  • Birds don’t live in nests. Nests are just where they keep their eggs. Birds sleep in trees.
  • Ponies are not baby horses. They’re just small horses.
  • Jessica Rabbit is not a rabbit, but took Roger Rabbit’s last name.

I guess that last one I should have figured out already, right?

What are the obvious things in the VAT-world that, you only realized later, were obvious to everyone but you? I give many presentations and trainings, and I think that for many people, the fact that 0% is still a VAT rate, still sometimes is a surprise. And to all IT-people out there: no VAT is not the same as 0% VAT! Please share with us your biggest ‘VAT revelations’ that you came across in your career. We may even make a Top 5 from your responses and post them on the website.

If you have any comments, questions, or ideas that you want to share with us, please send us an email at [email protected] or leave a comment under the posts of this newsletter on LinkedIn.


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