Esso Card VAT

The figures below are copied and pasted from an email from Essocard for a purchase I made in early December..... The actual receipt at the time was for £22.60 but I was charged the amount below.

VAT is taken into account. 

20% VAT £ 4.27

Total Net £ 17.08

Grand Total: £ 21.35

My latest after extracting info from invoice.

Product/Date DIESEL 21-12-2018 11:51:00

Actual Pump price £38.07 @ £1.31.9/litre

Esso Card Price/Volume £1.263 / 28.86

Total Net £ 29.16
20% VAT £ 7.29

Grand Total: £ 36.45 

Saving £1.54 /28.86 approx 5.37p/litre saved

Why have you removed comments and then changed the thread heading when the previous heading clearly stated Esso Card with no mention of VAT?  I always thought a moderator is supposed to be neutral?  No wonder so many people stop posting on this forum!

Surely it would have been more appropriate for the comments to have been removed to another thread and with a link to that thread  Hopefully Rowena takes note of this an reprimands those responsible.

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I think there must be 2 types of card in circulation this is what i see on my Esso Card from my account

DIESEL [ 18-12-2018 10:25:00 ] £1.263 45.69 £57.71

and the price £57.71 is exactly what was debited to my bank account, I have not had any sort of invoice or any mention of VAT, I think you should speak to club/esso and get sorted

Did you not get an email from Essocard for your purchase, the VAT is mentioned on there.

no nothing, what i have given you above is what i copied from my online account, it just gives an order ref date time, how much per ltr, number of ltrs i took and price, all are correct and the £57.71 was debited to my bank account, no problems my end.

only communication i get from Esso is the text message each Friday giving the coming weeks price per ltr

Often when paying I am asked if I want a VAT receipt. Always say no and am just given a standard credit card receipt, with no breakdown of VAT.

Perhaps those who are getting the emails detailing VAT ticked something on registration requesting them.

good point, and would make sense if you were vat registered and you had a way of reclaiming vat, otherwise this would be a no brainer, dont remember seeing anything re vat, but I could be wrong