do all contract phones add vat?

MarkyMarkD

But it is convention to quote rates (and prices) for business customers excluding VAT, because many of them can recover the VAT and hence it's irrelevant to them.

So if as an individual you sign up for a tariff intended for business customers, you may indeed get charged the quoted tariff PLUS 17.5% for VAT.

I can't understand why the OP seems to think that £200 + VAT = £280, because it's £235.

beverley1296

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

But it is convention to quote rates (and prices) for business customers excluding VAT, because many of them can recover the VAT and hence it's irrelevant to them.

So if as an individual you sign up for a tariff intended for business customers, you may indeed get charged the quoted tariff PLUS 17.5% for VAT.

I can't understand why the OP seems to think that £200 + VAT = £280, because it's £235.

I gave the figure off the top of my head, I enter lots of competitions and the costs are usually £1.50 or £2.00 a call, my bills range from £200 - £400 a month, I pay £35 a month contract and then I incur the other charges, which I'm miffed at, as if I pay with my orange pay as you go, and I put £30 on it, I know I get 15 x £2.00 calls?? so why does contract cost more???? I have just been rang up and asked to sign up again and get another phone, but have declined, the man I spoke to made out to me ONLY 02 added extra charges, that was really why I asked...