Milinda Cabo packing flowers for export for Mothering Sunday at Stan Brouard. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0542324)
A CODE of conduct to protect Guernsey’s bulk mailing businesses is likely following a decision by senior representatives of the Office of Utility Regulation, the Policy Council and Commerce and Employment.
A meeting took place at La Trelade Hotel yesterday morning which was also attended by Guernsey Post and the majority of bulk mailers.
It reviewed a report carried out by the OUR on behalf of C&E into low value consignment relief as applicable to DVDs and CDs dispatched from the Channel Islands. LVCR permits goods below £18 to be exported into the EU from non-EU jurisdictions without paying VAT.
The Guernsey Bulk Mailers’ Association believes that the possible risk to long-standing indigenous businesses should be alleviated by some form of agreement with the UK Government.
After a meeting lasting nearly two hours, agreement was reached to introduce a code of conduct to be signed by bulk mailers, said association chairman Rodney Brouard.
All parties at the meeting would be involved in the written detail of the code which the Policy Council would forward to representatives of the UK Government for approval.
* The Forum of Private Business, a group which lobbies on behalf of small- and medium-sized businesses has called on the UK Government to close what it sees as a loophole which is affecting its trade.
It wants the value of goods covered by LVCR to drop to about £7.
Elsewhere in the EU, however, there are moves to increase the allowance because of the cost of collecting the tax.
Article posted on 28th February, 2008 - 1.00pm
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