THE European Union often gets flak for wonky carrots or straight bananas.

But it also throws up more serious issues such as the one highlighted today about changes to tax laws affecting our socalled kitchen entrepreneurs.

Rules, such as VAT being charged at the rate of the country an item is sold in, not where the company is based, can be a bureaucratic nightmare for firms.

Small companies need all the support they can get to keep going.

What they don’t need is to be blocked by paperwork and faced with complex rules that force them out of business.