VAT increase

[lacroupade]

It is to try and help pay for what we have had, not what we will have.

Spot on! :thumb2

 

[Karinofnine]

But I'm not paying for what I'VE had, I'm paying for what politicians, bankers and the welfare state have had!

+1 for Briggie's plan, and, to add a few more:

If you're in prison you work on a chaingang (with armed guards like in America), you pick up litter/clean buildings and generally do useful physical work.

If you're an asylum seeker who has been granted asylum and you break the law, back home you go, you can serve your sentence in your own country, not at the cost of the UK taxpayer. Worried you're going to be tortured or killed? You should have thought of that before you took the pi55 and broke our laws.

 

[Karinofnine]

From The Daily Mash

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...ing-becomes-much-more-expensive-201101043390/

Sorry, don't know how to add it as a link.

Oh! Yes, I do! lol

 

[lacroupade]

But I'm not paying for what I'VE had, I'm paying for what politicians, bankers and the welfare state have had!

+1 for Briggie's plan, and, to add a few more:

If you're in prison you work on a chaingang (with armed guards like in America), you pick up litter/clean buildings and generally do useful physical work.

If you're an asylum seeker who has been granted asylum and you break the law, back home you go, you can serve your sentence in your own country, not at the cost of the UK taxpayer. Worried you're going to be tortured or killed? You should have thought of that before you took the pi55 and broke our laws.

The money that has bailed the banks out will all come back...it did with NR.

What we HAVE been having is a bloated public sector (from civil service to local government) that has been seriously mismanaged by both political parties, allowing for out-of-control expenditure on outdated weapons and foreign (and UK!) service providers charging over-inflated prices, and commitment to contracts that end up costing the taxpayer billions for very little perceived value. And lets not start on their cosy final salary pensions that swallow up 20% of my council tax for example JUST for the woolly jumpers in the town hall:doh

As a country we need to recognise that we are a relative sprat globally, stop kissing the US's arse and generally wind our necks in and worry about whats going on at home for a change instead of spending BILLIONS of pounds on wars that do not otherwise have anything to do with us.

 

[makeitfit]

Think it will have to be cos its only your deposits that will attract the old rate, remaining payment has to be at the new rate

And you can bet your bottom dollar that if they drop an inspection on you they will be looking at dates of payment, not just invoice dates.

But just to help:naughty, I'll link this thread to HMRC for you, to save you the trouble :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

But it highlights the problem for VAT registered traders, that the VAT increase usually hits them rather than anyone else (cos they either charge it and become uncompetitive, or, like the bishops girlfriend, just swallow it...) . Since starting this shop mullarkey and knowing the cost of landed goods from, say, China, I am absolutely stunned at the margins some companies, mostly the middlemen, are making....out of the factory, things cost peanuts....by the time they get to the retailer they are coconuts!

Planning to cut the out as soon as cash flow permits! Greedy ba5tard5!

Ah , but, look you by 'ere butt.....
Deposit taken on "account", so they become effectively account customers. The "sale" (contract) made on x date stands
Even the deposit isn't really date sensitive if the Invoice is the contract on account, if you see what I mean :naughty

 

[rustic]

Email just come in from Screwfix, they are holding the prices at the old VAT rate, until the end of January.
They probably haven't had chance to update their catalogue, they have a new one out today...

The cost of this VAT change is costing industry millions, lost money just to change the prices, literature, Catalogues etc think about Argos and the like.
I wonder where these costs will be passed onto as well...:nenau :nenau

Even Pound stretcher and the £1 shops are keeping their prices at £1
Otherwise they will have to call themselves £1.02 1/2p saver...
But we got rid of the 1/2 p a long time ago.....:lol

What a farce.... AGAIN....

Will Bad debts not paid by today incurr VAT at the old rate..... I assume it will.
Quite a nightmare for accountants, and they have the year end to adjust the figures.... April 5th Oh Joy....
At least they will have Easter to recover.

 

[jims-terrano]

Question for you all then!!!

You know some of us are in volunteer services such as RAYNET or 4x4 Response, well are we just subsidising the government out of our own pockets?

Jim

 

[kbekl]

Question for you all then!!!

You know some of us are in volunteer services such as RAYNET or 4x4 Response, well are we just subsidising the government out of our own pockets?

Jim

no i get my fuel paid

 

[briggie]

Question for you all then!!!

You know some of us are in volunteer services such as RAYNET or 4x4 Response, well are we just subsidising the government out of our own pockets?

Jim

no , you are doing something that cannot be bought , respect and help for others :thumb2

 

[Peasgood]

Question for you all then!!!

You know some of us are in volunteer services such as RAYNET or 4x4 Response, well are we just subsidising the government out of our own pockets?

Jim

So what if you are. It's your country and your community, there's nothing that says the Government has to provide everything (believe it or not).

 

[makeitfit]

Question for you all then!!!

You know some of us are in volunteer services such as RAYNET or 4x4 Response, well are we just subsidising the government out of our own pockets?

Jim

YES
Although I do volunteer my time happily
However these services are now doing what the police, ambulance and fire brigade did themselves in the past. Trouble is various cost cutting etc has cast out many fringe benefits like the police owning their own 4 x 4 trucks or the ambulances having the odd 4x4 bit of kit etc