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You and Yours: TV Licence , Staying Vegetarian and Digital Sales Tax

08/03/2021

TV Licence , Staying Vegetarian and Digital Sales Tax

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, TV Licence , Staying Vegetarian and Digital Sales Tax

Most attempts to be vegetarian fail, so what can you do to make sure you succeed?

Being good at being vegetarian, and are Chinese cars poised to dominate our electric vehicle market?

Pensioners complain over heavy handed tactics of BBC Licence fee collectors.

Vegetarian charity, Vegetarian for Life, that promotes a vegan or vegetarian diet  for people in their sixties and above,  has launched monthly zoom cooking events to help people adjust from meat eating -you can find out more here- ellie@vegetarianforlife.org.uk.  But what does it take to stay vegetarian for life? Top chef Tom Hunt gives us some tips.

In the latter part of the twentieth century Japanese cars grew to dominate our domestic market;  in the twenty first century will it be China's turn? They already make many of the world's car batteries and have been acquiring famous European brands like MG and Volvo to sell back to us.

Teenagers frustrated by disrupted education and  work place apprenticeships during the Pandemic have turned in greater numbers to becoming entrepreneurs and started up businesses while the waited for the world to return to normal 

Why do governments find it so hard to get online giants to pay tax; and would a two per cent sales tax on goods bought over the internet - help or hinder the economy?

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