Dont know if this is the right place to ask but here goes...Whats the situation regarding VAT on hot food please?? I wonder why I pay the same for a hot saviour as a cold one in certain high street chains!!
VAT on food is nothing to do with hot or cold,it's if you eat it in the shop/cafe/restaurant (you pay VAT)
If you take it away you don't pay VAT.
Of course there are some exceptions (but very few) but this is the law in general.
What Mr V says is true, though it is a bit more complex than that.
Foods that are classified as true food and not snacks are zero-rated. Which is why biscuits, choccy bars are always charged VAT.
Foods that supplied to eat-in always have VAT added because it is a service of food being supplied, not raw foodstuffs.
Foods that are heated will always attract VAT, even if you take-it-out, the supply is a service of hot food, even on a pasty that would be zero-rated when bought cold.