May I as a humble site owner please try and explain the facts over electric hook up charges. My wife and I run a small caravan and camping park in East Anglia. We have less than 60 pitches, no club, no disco, no bar, just us two trying to run a business. OFGEM (the Office for Gas and Electricity whatever) decided some years ago to stop unscrupulous housing landlords from profiteering on electricity by charging their tenants more than they were actually paying for electricity. They also decided that the new regulations should also apply to caravan parks. This meant that caravan parks had two choices, either install meters on every pitch (expensive), and read them every time someone left a pitch, work out the bill, and collect payment. (Can you imagine the queues on a large park on a Saturday morning in August) The second choice was to integrate the electric charge into the site fee, which most parks have done. BUT... VAT.... Electricity is rated for 5% VAT but pitch fees carry 17.5% VAT. We used to charge