Hello Chris Well that was my understanding, equipment modified or designed for the disabled is VAT exempted. But we just changed our mind and ordered from RNIB as we can't find a high street store locally selling the beast. Anyway it's ordered now and I'm hoping we'll have it some time either this week or next.
Lynne On 14 May 2012, at 19:28, chris hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote: Oh ok how odd if it's law and RNIB isn't reinforcing that law. Of course this could have changed as of today. On 14/05/2012 18:27, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello Chris > > The law states that if a piece of equipment is "modified" or designed > specifically for use by the disabled it qualifies for VAT exemption. That's > what I was told a while ago anyway. As for the firmware, the price is exactly > the same. We're having problems registering with RNIB because their email is > not arriving. It isn't in our junk box and it has not been sent to our > servers according to our server logs. We've tried several times but we cannot > get it to work. So it looks like we have no option but to go to another > supplier. > > Installing the firmware is easy, it's just a matter of running an executable > file and pointing it to the binary. The rest is automatic. > > Lynne > > On 14 May 2012, at 17:40, chris hallsworth<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes please well I am getting mine from RNIB because I don't know anyone > technical enough to do the firmware update for me. Ok they can set it up and > all that but getting the firmware might be a problem. So chose to pay the > full price. Some may disagree with me here but we are not excempt of VAT here > because it is a mainstream product with text to speech built in. > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- > ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
