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Old Aug 24th 2017, 6:16 am
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Originally Posted by IKnowNothing
I'm pleased that booze isn't included.
Already subject to sin tax, along with pork
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Old Aug 24th 2017, 6:24 am
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Yup 30% on booze if I remember rightly.
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Originally Posted by Irishbeekeeper
so fags bought from duty free will be cheaper or more expensive now?
I dont smoke...anymore
I vape...yes I am cool, deal with it
does yours look like a C-battery or a beta-max cassette with a straw coming out of it?
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Originally Posted by Millhouse
does yours look like a C-battery or a beta-max cassette with a straw coming out of it?
Doesn't matter. Neither look as cool as a normal cig.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
Doesn't matter. Neither look as cool as a normal cig.
quite.

Shisha costs to (not) double!
Shisha will not cost double in restaurants across UAE: expert | Zawya UAE Edition
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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
Already subject to sin tax, along with pork
Originally Posted by jam25mack
Yup 30% on booze if I remember rightly.
Only in Dubai (and I never buy it in Dubai), in Abu Dhabi it's a lot, lot cheaper, and this is a Federal tax, ie, countrywide, not specific to an Emirate.
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Originally Posted by Millhouse
It'll still be used as a reason to hike the prices, and that's across the board, not just Shisha, it'll also happen with all restaurants, then they'll use the 5% Vat rate to hike prices by 10%.

Or am I just a cynical old fart.
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Default Re: Sin Tax

Originally Posted by IKnowNothing
It'll still be used as a reason to hike the prices, and that's across the board, not just Shisha, it'll also happen with all restaurants, then they'll use the 5% Vat rate to hike prices by 10%.

Or am I just a cynical old fart.
For once, no....but I'd do the same if I were a company:

Take an item at 75 dirhams.
Add 5% VAT
= 78.75
Is the seller going to leave it at that? Or round up to 80?
The extra 1.25 could go towards the cost of employing people / services to process the VAT or maybe just make it 85 just to be safe and get another slither of profit.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
Doesn't matter. Neither look as cool as a normal cig.
ha! keep on smoking cigs and you will get cancer and die....whereas....I will also die...of one thing or another...in the end.
I dont know why I even bother with logic anymore honestly
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I have a strange, compelling desire to sin. Something, anything.

Suggestions, please.
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Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH
I have a strong desire to sin.

Suggestions, please.
Eid weekend trip away? Or is that when you're going to Scotland?
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I edited. Reads a bit better now, methinks.

It was just a weird floating desire to have a vice. I don't know why.

Originally Posted by Scamp
Eid weekend trip away? Or is that when you're going to Scotland?
I leave for Scotland tonight. At least I hope I do. There's something odd about my booking when I attempted to check in online, which doubtlessly has to do with the ticket being a BA ticket but flight is on QR, and I'm told to check in on QR but QR won't let me, and my name is utterly screwed up but I can't get the manage my booking feature to correct it.
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Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH
I have a strange, compelling desire to sin. Something, anything.

Suggestions, please.
given your excitement threshold, I would suggest putting some chili in the guacamole.
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Don't like spicy food, sorry.

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given your excitement threshold, I would suggest putting some chili in the guacamole.
Well, not quite true. Spicy food for me is something to be experienced at the right place at the right time. Like a curry in a hot, steamy, tropical clime with a ice cold beer. Not an everyday occurrence.
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Default Re: Sin Tax

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH
I have a strange, compelling desire to sin. Something, anything.

Suggestions, please.
Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH
I edited. Reads a bit better now, methinks.

It was just a weird floating desire to have a vice. I don't know why.



I leave for Scotland tonight. At least I hope I do. There's something odd about my booking when I attempted to check in online, which doubtlessly has to do with the ticket being a BA ticket but flight is on QR, and I'm told to check in on QR but QR won't let me, and my name is utterly screwed up but I can't get the manage my booking feature to correct it.
Using BA reference instead of QR to bring it up in search?

Anyway. Sin.
Have something filthy for lunch?
Pint at lunch?
Kill a man?

Not sure what sort of level sin we're talking...
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