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.

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.

Hays WRONG yet again.............

Haystack - 26 Nov 2014 18:36 - 51399 of 51406

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.................ends

SUBSTITUTE IDS FOR Ed Milliband AND YES YOU ARE RIGHT HAYS, but its not propaganda these figures come from your favourite agency........... the OBR.

The health hypocrisy of Jeremy Hunt26/11/2014

Coalition Health Secretary (and well-known misprint) Jeremy Hunt has admitted ignoring his own advice and taking his children to accident and emergency because he did not want to wait for a GP appointment.

The queue-jumping Conservative has previously – hypocritically – urged the public to avoid A&E in all but the most urgent cases, telling us to go to chemists’ doctors’ surgeries and walk-in centres instead.

In the light of his statement during yesterday’s health questions in the House of Commons, we may conclude that this is in order to clear the way for him and his fat, rich buddies.

It’s not enough for him that he’s selling off NHS contracts to his private-sector shareholder friends just as fast as he can; he wants to push ordinary people – the people who actually pay for the NHS – to the back of the queue.

The NHS is falling further into crisis under his stewardship, with most of the English trusts preparing to record huge deficits at the end of the financial year.

Wasn’t the Health and Social Care Act 2012 supposed to ensure that the NHS stayed on-budget? Why has it made matters worse?

The NHS has delayed publication of its weekly “winter pressures situation reports”, raising fears that people are being denied information about what’s happening on the NHS frontline.

And experts have reported that they believe vulnerable people are having more accidents in the home because of cuts in social care.

The failure of Conservative attempts to manage the National Health Service is complete. Perhaps this is why Tory MPs would prefer healthcare to be entirely privately-run – they would be able to blame someone else.

Operation Disabled Vote: Millions who suffer from disability have power to change politics

Nov 25, 2014 19:16
OPINION BY ROSWYNNE JONES

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/operation-disabled-vote-millions-who-4694652

Camoron still trending on TWITTER...........................WOW

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Cameron might still be "trending"

But look what he is trending against.

Have people so little in their lives that they obsess about baking, not to mention the rest of the nonentities.


Promoted by Waitrose ffs :-(