Semantic clarification needed

[blain]

This is bothering me.

<p class="product-price">
<span class="exc-vat"><span>Price</span>
&pound;200 exc. VAT</span>
<span class="inc-vat">&pound;230 inc. VAT</span>
</p>

It's not really a paragraph, what container would you use?

[bulevardi]

Like this:

<p class="product-price">
Price <span class="exc-vat">&pound;200 </span>exc. VAT<span class="inc-vat">&pound;230 </span>inc. VAT
</p>

[AutisticCuckoo]

I think it's as close to a paragraph as makes no difference. If you don't want to mark it up as a paragraph, you probably need to use a div, which I'd say is worse.

Of course, you could claim that it's a one-item definition list …

<dl class="product-price">
  <dt>Price</dt>
  <dd>&pound;200 <abbr>exc.</abbr> <abbr>VAT</abbr></dd>
  <dd>&pound;230 <abbr>inc.</abbr> <abbr>VAT</abbr></dd>
</dl>

dl.product-price dt,
dl.product-price dd {
  display:inline;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}

This might look a bit odd when unstyled, though, which is usually an indication that one is travelling down the wrong mental pathway.

[Dark Tranquility]

I don't know why it bothers you to consider it as a paragraph?
If you will have many products for which you are going to list Prices and VAT you can consider it as a tabular data and hence use a table...