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Too expensive to manufacture electronics in UK (RaspberryPi)

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    Too expensive to manufacture electronics in UK (RaspberryPi)

    RaspberyPI.com: We’ve started manufacture:

    I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas. Right now, the way things stand means that a company doing its manufacturing abroad, depriving the UK economy, gets a tax break. It’s an absolutely mad way for the Inland Revenue to be running things, and it’s an issue we’ve taken up with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
    Spit your rage and flames

    #2
    Originally posted by yasockie View Post
    The purpose of import duties is not to penalise importers per se, but to encourage local manufacture by penalising the foreign manufacturers of the imports.

    The answer is for someone in the UK to manufacture the components locally, having an advantage because imported components are liable to duty and theirs are not.
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      #3
      Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post
      The purpose of import duties is not to penalise importers per se, but to encourage local manufacture by penalising the foreign manufacturers of the imports.

      The answer is for someone in the UK to manufacture the components locally, having an advantage because imported components are liable to duty and theirs are not.
      We looked at this in the early nineties, and it was crazy because there is stuff you simply cannot make from scratch in the UK, has patents on it etc etc.
      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Sysman View Post
        We looked at this in the early nineties, and it was crazy because there is stuff you simply cannot make from scratch in the UK, has patents on it etc etc.
        WSS. Given the cost required to build the factories required to manufacture this stuff we really need to change the rules.

        Unfortunately the rules will be EU based rather than UK based but considering that its a proxy for Broadcom complaining someone may actually do something about it.
        merely at clientco for the entertainment

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          #5
          Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post
          The purpose of import duties is not to penalise importers per se, but to encourage local manufacture by penalising the foreign manufacturers of the imports.

          The answer is for someone in the UK to manufacture the components locally, having an advantage because imported components are liable to duty and theirs are not.
          Why would they when they can be manufactured abroad so much more cheaply?
          Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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            #6
            The majority of the goods we buy these days are manufactured abroad
            In Scooter we trust

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              #7
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              Why would they when they can be manufactured abroad so much more cheaply?
              British jobs for British workers.

              Didn't you listen to anything Brown has said?

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                British jobs for British workers.

                Didn't you listen to anything Brown has said?

                We agents are better at talking than listening
                Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                  #9
                  We need to be more competitive or offer better incentives for those bringing jobs to Britain
                  In Scooter we trust

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                    #10
                    Maybe they should charge "import duty" on non EU workers, after all they are component parts or imported assets.
                    Just saying like.

                    where there's chaos, there's cash !

                    I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong!

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