HM REVENUE and Customs is taking legal advice in response to claims that Channel Island retailers are shipping to the UK via third countries in order to benefit from low value consignment relief, it has confirmed.

THE chairman of Guernsey’s Bulk Mailers Group has said that his members will bounce back from the withdrawal of LVCR relief last year.

FLOWER exporters will go bust if the UK changes the agreement that allows goods under £18 to be sent VAT-free from Guernsey, industry sources have warned.

ESTABLISHED Guernsey companies should not be tarred with the same brush as ‘opportunistic newcomers’ in the row over VAT exemption, according to the founder of Healthspan.

THE island's mail order business is secure for now following UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget statement.

GUERNSEY and Jersey have similar ideas about online retailers setting up business in the islands, said deputy Commerce and Employment minister Carla McNulty Bauer yesterday.