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Worst culprit is a little known company called Microsoft who sell licences at $1 to £1 rate.
So if licence is $100, US guys pay $106 (assuming 6% Sales Tax), which is 1.06/1.36 = £78.
Our prices include VAT. So if we pay £100, we are paying 28% more than US guys.
Hardware sales also tend to follow this.
So yeah, we always get screwed on the RHS of the Pond. I believe our Antipodean friends (underneath the Pond?) get even more screwed but could be put of date on that one).