Yes, but... They can afford to fund this kind of promotion because they pay no tax, and the majority of high-street opticians do, as they aren't large enough to register their business in Switzerland.
I am paying more tax - my marginal rate now stands at 60% - because of the effective abolition of Corporation Tax for top 10% of Britain's largest companies.
Part of that discount is paid for by me. Some of it is paid for by those small High Street opticians who are rapidly disappearing.
Others, including the recipients of disability benefits, are losing rather more than I am, due this unseemly lenience to prominent Conservative campaign supporters.
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Date: 2011-05-23 06:38 am (UTC)I am paying more tax - my marginal rate now stands at 60% - because of the effective abolition of Corporation Tax for top 10% of Britain's largest companies.
Part of that discount is paid for by me. Some of it is paid for by those small High Street opticians who are rapidly disappearing.
Others, including the recipients of disability benefits, are losing rather more than I am, due this unseemly lenience to prominent Conservative campaign supporters.