Re: It is not just lost VAT ...
@Natalie - agreed, toilet paper is definitely at the bottom of the list of useful 'dodges' but one of the earlier contributors, moaning about how soon it would come up, is probably able to buy the latest tech under his "company boss" hat for use under his "home with the family" hat, and then says "The fact that I own the company that employs me has no bearing whatsoever on this." which I consider a steaming heap of BS.
He's clearly annoyed at the suggestion, and by sinking into the sewer to use the f-word, it gives (to me, perhaps alone), all the more reason to think it's the result of it being true, and the louder he shouts it isn't, the greater the suspicion it is.
If some of the equipment happens to have useful access to, say, Netflix, iPlayer, Sky Go, he'd no doubt claim it was purely to keep up with legislation :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
