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by londons_explore 2055 days ago
A poor person buys some shampoo and pays VAT.

A rich person invests in a company which buys a yacht (that they can use). They don't pay VAT because the company can claim it back if the yacht is used for business purposes, which of course it will be because the rich person will use it to have business meetings with all their other rich friends on.