A GUERNSEY-based fulfilment company expects online success to continue this year despite the withdrawal of low value consignment relief.

THE Bulk Mailers Association would not allow HMV to become a member when it moved its fulfilment business to the island, it has been revealed.

GUERNSEY will take legal action against the UK over its decision to end VAT-relief for cheap goods shipped from the Channel Islands.

ENSURING that Europe fully understands Guernsey’s position on issues such as tax and VAT relief for low value goods is a top priority for the island, Guernsey’s ‘man in Brussels’ has said.

CHANNEL ISLAND companies exporting CDs and DVDs to the UK free of VAT could see their advantage wiped out in less than a year.

THE future today looks bleak for many of the 600 people employed within the island’s fulfilment industry.

DEPUTY Barry Brehaut said yesterday that he shared similar concerns as bulk mailer boss Rodney Brouard about the future of the industry.

Deputy Barry Brehaut has moved to explain comments that appeared earlier in the Daily Telegraph which drew attention to the local fulfilment industry’s use of low value consignment relief.

St Peter Port South deputy Barry Brehaut was facing calls at the weekend to resign over his injudicious remarks about low value consignment relief, the EU legislation underpinning the wrongly labelled ‘VAT loophole’.

STATES members have dismissed a suggestion that Barry Brehaut should resign over comments he made about Guernsey’s fulfilment industry.