Investment & Investing

So you now see, you don't need to own the whole company to benefit from the profit in the sale of its goods.

fixed.

You said "at cost". I was just pointing out that as a tiny shareholder you are really paying full price with a miniscule amount of the profit coming back to you.

And as Mr Smyth points out of course you still have to pay the duty and tax which only ever benefits the government.

I guess if you really wanted to get a beer at cost you would need to buy a brewery and then grab a pint glass and fill it from the fermenting tank direct...
(Mr Smyth would probably point out this should then be considered a benefit in kind so you would get taxed on it somehow...)