Further, number (1) takes power away from people who are told that someone else knows better than them, and what's good for their body

I thought Malta was meant to be very green and pretty.....

I don’t want to hijack DR’s forum but just to answer your ABN post.

Yes, anyone can apply for an ABN but you can't then use it to willy nilly buy things at wholesale prices.

You can only use it for your related business (i.e.) if you are then going to on-sell the wholesale items at retail price.

I work in hospitality wholesale. If a restaurant, hotel, bar or anyone related to the hospitality industry wanted to buy from us, with the view to then on-selling those items at a retail price in their retail outlets, that would be fine.

If a manager at a pharmacy or car yard contacted us and wanted to use his companies ABN (or his own ABN) to purchase wholesale stock for his own personal use, we would say no.

It would be like me applying for an ABN, then going to the new car yard, local supermarket or clothes shop and demanding to pay wholesale, just because I happened to have an ABN.

Part of my job description entails assessing and approving customer wholesale applications. Around Christmas we have a lot of Mums and Dads with ABN’s wanting to buy cheap items for Christmas presents. Or I will get a wife ringing up with her husbands ABN for his plumbing company trying to buy cheap products for her sister’s birthday present etc…...They all try to use their unrelated industry ABN’s to buy at wholesale prices, these sort of applications always get rejected.

It is illegal for us to sell wholesale to members of the public. That is why I was so surprised that DR is able to buy wholesale for his own personal use without a business related ABN.

Hope that helps to clear up any misconceptions about what you can and can’t do with an ABN.

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