{"id":253647,"date":"2018-03-26T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=253647"},"modified":"2018-03-26T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:37:56","slug":"hetzner-not-hiking-prices-with-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/253647-hetzner-not-hiking-prices-with-vat.html","title":{"rendered":"Hetzner not hiking prices with VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hetzner has announced that its hosting fees will not be affected by the increase in VAT on 1 April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After weighing up this important issue, Hetzner has decided to absorb the increase in VAT and not pass it onto our customers,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t believe that the VAT increase is an adequate trigger for a price increase. There are a number of factors we do take into consideration when reviewing our pricing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hetzner said it is always\u00a0looking for the perfect price-to-performance ratio and regularly reviews its pricing against various factors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As global input costs continue to increase, we may not be able to avoid price adjustments indefinitely. But we prefer to look at price increases tied to improvements in our service,&#8221; said Hetzner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If an adjustment is required in the future, we will carefully consider the value we offer our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/253291-telkom-raising-prices-due-to-vat-increase.html\">Telkom raising prices due to VAT increase<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hetzner&#8217;s hosting fees will not be affected by the increase in VAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1065,23978],"class_list":["post-253647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-hetzner","tag-value-added-tax-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253653,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253647\/revisions\/253653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}