10 Sep
10:28pm, 10 Sep 2024
17,780 posts
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jda
You don’t need an accountant to run a business. We’ve done our own business accounts for a decade, including quarterly VAT. Admittedly there were a few things we couldn’t be bothered claiming (eg a fraction of heating costs), so it’s possible an accountant would have done a better job, but unlikely it would have been better enough to pay for their costs. We didn’t do it specifically to minimise tax of course, but rather because it was the appropriate way to run our affairs.
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10 Sep
10:32pm, 10 Sep 2024
11,617 posts
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Fields
fozzy has forgotten about the petty borj
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10 Sep
10:33pm, 10 Sep 2024
9,408 posts
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Pothunter
Jeez, the inability of people on this thread to have a rational debate is starting to grate. I don’t recall much recently where anyone has conceded even a minor point that someone else has made. I haven’t kittened anyone because even though I don’t agree with everyone, I find it interesting to hear views that contradict my own. This gives me cause to examine my own thinking and has honestly opened my mind in a lot of cases for which I am grateful. But the constant sniping needs to stop. This has become a distinctly unpleasant corner of the otherwise wonderfully supportive community that is Fetcheveryone. |
10 Sep
10:59pm, 10 Sep 2024
23,005 posts
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rf_fozzy
jda wrote: but rather because it was the appropriate way to run our affairs. If you're running a business, then that seems totally fair. Not sure I'd know where to start if it were me! But setting yourself up a personal business entity as suggested earlier to avoid paying tax just seems very dodgy to me. |
10 Sep
11:23pm, 10 Sep 2024
33,070 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Setting up a business - at least in the form of a limited liability company - is very easy in this country and involves very little in the way of set up costs.
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10 Sep
11:34pm, 10 Sep 2024
23,006 posts
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rf_fozzy
But setting yourself up as a ltd company to avoid paying tax is (to coin a phrase).... Just weird. Anyway in other news, Paul Marshall of GB news ownership fame (also owns the totally dodgy UnHerd - which regularly publishes false, misleading and often outright incendiary misinformation) has bought the Spectator. He's still after the Telegraph too |
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10 Sep
11:35pm, 10 Sep 2024
23,007 posts
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rf_fozzy
He's trying to turn himself into the Reform version of Murdoch...
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10 Sep
11:37pm, 10 Sep 2024
23,008 posts
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rf_fozzy
And finally, don't forget it's the "debate" between Harris and the other one at 2am. I'm sure it'll be worth staying up for....not. |
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10 Sep
11:40pm, 10 Sep 2024
11,618 posts
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Fields
Harris (J not K) is a typical guardian liberal but he gets it theguardian.com Starmer and Reeves will exceed Harold Shipman’s pensioner body count this winter Still no sign of a wealth tax |
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10 Sep
11:48pm, 10 Sep 2024
33,071 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I shan't be stopping up for the debate. Too late and too stressful. I hope she can at least hold her own even if she doesn't win by a KO.
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