Sometime it is hard not to become abusive at the idiocy of Government
departments. The utterly bizarre decision of the Valuation Office Agency
(yes indeed; who they?) to treat ATMs as separate businesses (EDP Aug
29) and thus hit them with an entirely spurious business rate charge
defies description.
These devices are attached to the business (even inside) and do not do
anything but provide bank customers with access to their money. They add
no value to anything and have effectively saved the banks (who did their
best to bankrupt us remember) the need to have local offices, local
employees and provide any sort of service to their customers.
Should there be any charge accruing from the existence of ATMS it should
better be levied on the bank to offset the vast cost to us all of saving
them from their own stupidity.
We should all write to our MPs immediately before our local shops have
been wiped out by this Government's austerity philosophy,. which is the
prime cause of this be assured.
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