Jaffa Cake facts
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McVitie's produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to prove it's a cake in order to be charged less tax as biscuits are taxed at a higher rate.
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A legal case was fought in UK to determine whether Jaffa Cake is indeed a Cake or is actually a Biscuit.
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The 'Are Jaffa Cakes biscuits or cakes?' question was settled in court in favour of Jaffa Cakes being a cake.
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Jaffa Cakes have nothing to do with Jaffa oranges - the squashy section on top has always been made of apricot pulp, tangerine oil and sugar.
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Jaffa Cakes are legally cakes for tax reasons.
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In 1991 there was a VAT tribunal in which McVities defended the fact that Jaffa Cakes are cakes; not biscuits. They done this because in the UK, value-after-tax only applies to chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes, making their product cheaper.
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There's a web page on the UK government website about whether a Jaffa cake is a biscuit or a cake.
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Whether Jaffa Cakes are actually cakes is an issue of interest to both the tax authorities and philosophers, since it challenges binary categorisation. And the biggest one is 1.2M.
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At a VAT tribunal in 1991, there was a dispute as to whether a Jaffa Cake was a cake or a biscuit. McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and allegedly produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to illustrate its point
