The popular mobility scooter, which has given many elderly and disabled people a new lease of life, has fallen prey to an EU-imposed tax.Costing £2,500 on average and mostly imported from Taiwan and China, they are exempt from VAT for disabled purchasers and until recently, were also free of customs duty.
Ray Hodgkinson, director general of the British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA), warned that the decision to treat the vehicles as "go-karts" could bankrupt some companies. READ ON
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