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Originally Posted by Aspirin
I think the main problem with the growers in England is the tax and land costs, in Holland the govenment subsidises everything for growers, also flowers have only a 6% VAT not like the normall stuff that is at 19%.
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I dont know what subsidies the Dutch growers sre supposed to get ?
They used to be able to get subsidies on gas for heating, but that stopped years ago.
Recently spoke to one big rose grower, and his gas bill went up 300,000 euro's this year !!!!!
Also the VAT makes no difference because 90% of flowers produced are sold at the tax rate of the country being shipped to. You can only charge 6% on flowers for export if you ship below a certain amount each year. (I thought about 150K euro's)
Agricultural land in all countries is considerably cheaper than industrial land, and I would imagine that the UK is no dearer (if not cheaper) than Holland.
I still think the biggest problem with UK growers is the lack of professional attitude towards investment & have you ever heard of UK growers working together !!!
Unheard of !
Just my opinion