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.

Denmark
paris
uk
all the killers were asylum families seeking safety then they turn the gun on those that gave them safety .
time to say no to asylum seekers they will turn on the helpers

Egypt retaliates with air strikes after ISIS marches 21 Coptic Christians along a lonely Libyan beach and beheads them en masse for their faith
Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in eastern Libya today
There were at least seven airstrikes in the Islamist-held city of Derna
Strikes come after ISIS-affiliated militants murdered 21 Egyptians in Libya
Militants last night released video showing the Coptic Christians' murder
Men were paraded on a beach by masked killed before savage beheadings
Egyptian government last night vowed 'to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers'


in the name of ISLAM

IDS, is shooting his mouth off again.

If you are a small business and pay for a service, or equivalent which you claim for as an expense for "taxation purposes" you are a fool if don't ask for receipt.

If it it a repeated expense claim and HMRC decides to have a "close" look at you books and receipts.

A house owner would be sensible if he makes repeated use of a tradesman, unless he has evidence of " the tradesman's credentials.

In practice the latter is unlikely to be investigated.

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I suggest IDS like his policy implementations are not fit for purpose! (A nasty little man.)

If you are a small business and pay for a service, or equivalent which you claim for as an expense for "taxation purposes" you are a fool if don't ask for receipt.

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absolutely so, as has always but always been the case
it even applies to courier drivers using toll bridges/roads where it is actually impossible to get a receipt

Cash Payments I make and where I don't ask for a receipt:

Window cleaner who visits the house
Paperman who visits the house
Hairdresser
Barman at the pub
Car cleaning gang
Greengrocer at the market (but only one of its two sections - one does give, one doesn't give receipts)
In fact, most market traders never give me a receipt. They haven't time to bother with it.
Most car parking machines don't seem to want to proffer any kind of a receipt to me - or give me change, come to think.

With any of the above, I know I've paid and they know I've paid. I've got the goods (or received the services) and they know whether they have been paid or not.
By the way, I do not regard it as being my responsibility as to whether these guys declare their takings and pay taxes on it or not.

I pay my Council Tax using Direct Debit. This means cash goes out of my bank account for it once a month but they don't give me a receipt for each individual payment. I suppose they must keep a tally and they just knock down the 'balance owing' from the 'total annual amount due'.

More importantly, some commentators think the £ is about to slide towards £1 = $1.25

Why?

Well, if Labour wins, we’ve got the whole ‘anti-business’ issue. We end up with policies that sound like they’ll be popular at the ballot box, but turn out to be deeply stupid in practice (like freezing energy prices right before a massive slump in the oil price, for example).

Then throw the SNP into the mix. Suddenly we now have a left-wing minority government being propped up by a far more left-wing nationalist group, which is in the odd position of influencing policy-making for a country that it wants to break up.

If we get a Grexit, then some think some other countries will also have to leave the EU community too.

Add to that the total uncertainty of an 'In/Out' Referendum yielding an 'Out' result and whether the remainder of Europe might be unforgiving and lock us out of European markets, thus giving total disruption to the way ahead.

Aaargh! What on earth is one to do?

Probably the one who does not have a recognisable business address could be the window cleaner.

If you have reason to expect "Tax Evasion" especially with reasonable evidence you have a "legal" responsibility to report it to HMRC.

I doubt in practice many do.

But the sums are probably trivial compared with other "frauds".

The problem generally is for those proving and claiming tax expenses.

Your evidence of direct bank debit or payment s statement, or Card payment would be acceptable.

I must admit when computers and spreadsheets came on the market they were a god send.

''Well, if Labour wins, we’ve got the whole ‘anti-business’ issue.'' So if that were to happen where would the money come from to fund the UK?
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What ‘anti-business’ issue.''?

I can remember back in the 70s and 80s chatting with small and medium business "men" and all saying that the "did" better under labour than tory governments.

Same applied for 1997-2007.

What irritated them was the amount of "paper work" but if you look at the expenses being claimed and what for you could understand the need for "paper work".

Labour need a business community and a "financial service community", but both need sensible "regulation" and "oversight" to prevent the excesses of certain "individuals".

Up to 400 Jewish gravestones desecrated and daubed with Nazi graffiti in 'heinous anti-Semitic attack' in French cemetery
Attack at Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union in Alsace on German border
Gravestones kicked over or had Nazi swastikas daubed on them in red
France's interior minister condemns the 'odious act against tolerance'
Gun attack on Denmark synagogue left Jewish man dead at weekend


this is all down to the west having no real leaders just cowards
we need leaders with balls and guts and stamp these scum out
Cameron Obama gutless no balls no honour

they do not have the right to honour our dead soldiers

looking backwards ,

sadam
gadafi
were great leaders we now have no control
they new and dealt with the problems todays
leaders gutless no balls cowards

islam is the enemy of the world unless muslims take up the fight to honour their faith
and wipe out these terrorist in the name of their faith

it looks like no one wants to talk about the issues of the world

fred - just walked back in so perhaps i have missed something
if not, then categorically, and i repeat, you have always but always needed a receipt if you wanted to claim an expense against tax

Fred,

Did I read Britain's Conservatives are in a four-point lead over Labour, new poll shows.




:-))

:-)

Actually, I'm up for a UKIP/Tory get together sorta kinda, me, myself, personally.

And Tanker: Yes. The regular Muslims' voices, when and if speaking out against the extremists are not at all loud enough.

In fact, they are so quiet, it stinks! And you can bet as much as you like, that Prince Charles is actively speaking up and actively influencing behind the scenes to get the sort of actions done and changes taken place that we all want to see.

Tories open four point lead over Labour

Boost for David Cameron as Conservative party puts in strongest showing in polls for nearly two years with increased voter focus on the importance of jobs, prices and wages



By Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor

1:39PM GMT 16 Feb 2015

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The Conservatives have opened up a four-point lead over Labour after the biggest surge in their support for two years, a poll has suggested.


A Guardian/ ICM poll showed that the Tories are six points up to 36 per cent, only one point short of their result in the 2010 General Election.


Labour support fell one point to 32 per cent, while the Liberal Democrats were also down a point to 10 per cent.


The Tories recovery came amid falling support for the smaller parties, with Ukip down two points to 9 per cent and the greens two points to 7 per cent.


The Tory lead contrasts with three surveys published over the weekend which suggested that Labour has a two or three point lead.



However, ICM's phone poll is seen as the "gold standard" as it came closest to forecasting the result of the last General Election.

By contrast in December an ICM poll put the Conservative Party on just 28 per cent of the vote.

The poll suggests that voters are putting an increasing emphasis on the importance of the economic recovery.

The proportion of those polled who said jobs, prices and wages were the most important issue rose by three points to 17 per cent.

Not surprising really. :-))

TV-stars-Ant-Dec-say-Ed-Miliband is not up to being PM.

DC - that'll carry a lot of weight :-)