HMRC warning..

[Chri5]

Heard a radio advert earlier. HMRC are doing what they did with the plumbers via Gas Safe / Corgi.

The advert goes that 'we' have until May to volunteer any undisclosed earnings, otherwise they will come after 'us'.

Sounds like they have been auditing scheme providers and will use the logic of X certs = Y earnings

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If you turn yourselves into mobile phone companies making billions in profits you won't have to pay tax.

 

[Chri5]

or married to an accountant who doesn't charge me anything more than the odd sexual favour

 

[JohnD]

just how odd?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I can do odder than you - what PAYE tax code can she get me?

 

[17thman]

If you turn yourselves into mobile phone companies making billions in profits you won't have to pay tax.

Or a local government worker/ public sector worker who tries to undermine the economy by going on strike so people cannot get to work to pay their taxes. Or union leaders recommending strike action during the olympics to further their cause and cause misery to others. I bet if bankers, lawyers, estate agents or removal men went on strike, the public sector worker who had planned to move house on that day, would be in tears and distress.

socialism, communism is a failed idea, it brings down industry, economies, living standards and countries. For Centuries, China's method of government has ensured poverty and misery for 95% of its people, now they have embrassed the free market, it is booming beyond belief, and their tax revenue is manifoldly increased. Their biggest industries have untold wealth and also employ millions upon millions of people.

There is nothing wrong in being a multi millionaire. Imagine all the mobile phone companies out there employing thousands of people who pay their taxes, who dont go on strike and disrupt the economy.

On that point, when we hear about millions of bonuses being paid to bankers. That stat is wrong. most of the millions go to ordinary workers meeting their own individual targets. Like getting a bonus for customer satisfaction, few mistakes, passing exams and progressing and even attendance. I wont mention the attendance levels in the public sector.

Mine and your tax pay for symathetic doctors giving sick notes for anxiety, depression and other long term illneses or public sector workers not turning up for work because they are a "bit ill". (not withstanding genuine cases)

We need to stand up and react to this nonsense. Those who withhold their labour on the grounds of purely looking after themselves is selfish, self centred, not forward looking, damaging and another reason why this country, under any sort of labour, socialist government will not be anywhere near full employment.

To the OP. What have we got to worry about if we declare what we earn.

 

[JohnD]

I bet if bankers, lawyers, estate agents or removal men went on strike...

I have a feeling we would somehow learn to live with it.

But as long as they continue to pay themselves vast mounds of the nation's cash, why would they strike?



(removal men? what are you on about?)

 

[ban-all-sheds]

17th man - spoken like a true idiot who thinks that unregulated capitalism can be nothing but good, and that large multinational companies can never be wrong.

 

[timbim]

(removal men? what are you on about?)

He was listing some of the people required for a house move, and proposing that striking public sector workers would be less than happy to find any of them on strike on their moving date.

 

[BeeLZeebub]

17th man - spoken like a true idiot who thinks that unregulated capitalism can be nothing but good, and that large multinational companies can never be wrong.

Hmm, 17th man's tirade is a bit of a mish mash, but it demands a bit of a leap to infer his support for "unregulated capitalism" etc

As for JohnD's ".. But as long as they continue to pay themselves vast mounds of the nation's cash, why would they strike?" ...

Certainly, bankers do not need to extort a surplus from their employers because they are in a sector that generates huge revenues ..... revenues that benefit the country ... but they do not "pay themselves vast amounts of the nation's cash" ... Sigh, the Labour government's 'blame management' (for Britain's malaise) was one of their few successes .....

 

[JohnD]

bankers do not need to extort a surplus from their employers because they are in a sector that generates huge revenues

No, mate.

Bankers do not generate wealth. They move it around and keep what they can for themselves.

 

[BeeLZeebub]

bankers do not need to extort a surplus from their employers because they are in a sector that generates huge revenues

No, mate.

Bankers do not generate wealth. They move it around and keep what they can for themselves.

... A glib comment that displays a complete lack of understanding of the sector's importance to you and the country, and of the many, many thousands of people in the sector that dont deserve the opprobrium heaped upon them by the willingly uninformed

 

[JohnD]

A glib comment

 

[Iggifer]

back to the original post, there is an article about this in the latest NAPIT Competent Person magazine

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• Iggifer
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[Symptoms]

So, the workers right to withdraw their labour is somehow wrong ... of course the next logical step is to outlaw this right. Oh, now that sounds familiar ... Nazi Germany, the earlier European feudal systems, slavery.