Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

TANKER

maggies picture as been taken down and destroyed

Why ? Thatchers not the PM now., its been decades since she was in power how can you blame her. Didn't you vote for her ?

TANKER ,you didn't answer my post

Severely disabled 19-year-old with a mental age of just five is ordered to have a fitness-to-work test despite not being able to read, write, talk or even sleep on her own
Ellie McDonald cannot eat or walk alone due to a rare genetic disorder
Her mother applied for support ahead of her finishing special school
But she was shocked to be told the teenager will have to undergo test
They fear she'll miss out on help in the months she now has to wait
DWP say they will carry out the test as quickly as possible


aid . we want all the shit of the con party removed we are ashamed of the scum
and the above post says it all

we will not vote for a evil party. and if you vote for this evil party then you and your family are evil .

a further 5 or 6 pints have clearly been poured down the gannet's gullet

maggie is dead now residing with the devil Cameron and is cronies will also dine with the devil

cynic are you saying your family are with the devil

i'ld reckon it a better bet that you are pissed out of your skull

TANKER

Why won't you vote UKIP ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/25/boris-johnsons-sister-calls-david-cameron-an-egg-faced-c-on-twitter_n_6219654.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

I just love the statistics posted above with absolutely no evidence. I might as well say that Ed Miliband is a mass murderer. It is all just silly propaganda.

Haze,

You are in denial again and been let down by the party.

Get back to your bunker!

The helpers in white coats will be coming soon!

I see no excessive tax cuts.

why do they have to do everything the hard way?



New EU VAT rules threaten to kill UK micro firms

The EU's new VAT MOSS rule, which is due to come into force on January 1, will create a #VATMESS and strangle innovation, say the UK's small business owners



"In one fell swoop, they're stifling innovation and cross border trade, and forcing people to close their businesses." Photo: Alamy


By Rebecca Burn-Callander, Enterprise Editor

9:41AM GMT 26 Nov 2014



Small businesses trading online are up in arms about a new EU regulation, which states that from 1 January 2015, VAT on digital products will be chargeable in the place of purchase rather than place of supply in the EU.


The regulatory tweak - known as #VATMOSS - is being introduced to stop multinational corporations that trade online - such as Amazon or Google - from diverting all their European sales through low-VAT countries.


However, small business owners claim that #VATMOSS is likely to hurt many UK micro firms selling digital services, including: ebooks, e-courses, recorded training videos, music and audio downloads.


After January 1, whenever an ebook or pdf is sold to a consumer in the EU (digital services for businesses are not covered by the new arrangement), the seller is automatically liable for VAT MOSS and must therefore also waive their UK "de minimis" threshold - and apply VAT to everything they sell, not just the digital services.


The new law will affect thousands of sole traders. These companies have two options. They they can register for VAT in every EU member state where they have customers, which could be burdensome but does mean they can take advantage of the domestic threshold for their UK sales. Or they can set up a ‘Mini One Stop Shop’ (hence, “VAT MOSS”) by registering for VAT in the UK. This then funnels the VAT payments to the rest of the EU states.


This is complex as the firms will need to split their business between sales to EU customers and UK customers to ensure that they only pay VAT on the supplies to customers in other member states and do not pay VAT on their domestic supplies.

According to Carla Watkins, who runs stationery subscription business Ink Drops, the absence of a threshold to protect tiny businesses from the VAT charge is threatening to kill her enterprise.

"We'd planned to expand into downloadable products from December," she told the Telegraph. "I had planned to launch an e-course in January. Though I've worked on it for months, it now falls under these rules. Even if I could find a way to capture the correct information, it's simply not worth the extra time and hassle admin for VAT compliance - we are now being held to the same corporate compliance procedures as giants like Amazon.

"In one fell swoop, they're stifling innovation and cross border trade, and forcing people to close their businesses - all for the lack of consultation, clarity and communication."



More red tape here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/11254829/New-EU-VAT-rules-threaten-to-kill-UK-micro-firms.html

Those changes mean that the UK will get about £300m extra in VAT receipts

Yes, chopping the big boys diversions is good, but only £300m, I thought it was a lot more than that.


But what about the micro businesses?

Surely a higher cut off wouldn't hurt anyone, and keep a few more in work.

If you raise the cut off then the VAT receipts will go down.

Yes, but keeping it across the board will kill all receipts from a lot of the tidlers, lots of tidlers out there.

That threshold was there for a reason.

The cut off is already quite high at £81,000. The small businesses will just have to get used to it. The same arguments were used when VAT was introduced but people learned to cope with it.