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[Johnsond]

Defra pays ‘eye watering’ £86.5m IR35 bill  - Contractor & Business Weekly

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Defra has paid a total of £86.5m in backdated taxes to HMRC, after a lengthy investigation into historic...

I’ve just come to the end of a 4 year Hmrc investigation that cost me £131k to resolve 🤮. If government departments can’t conform or pass the cest verification process what chance have normal contractors got. 

[Mark J]

On 18/11/2022 at 20:28, Mick Dempsey said:

Yeah, that’s what he was talking about…

Nobody wants to talk about how a Tory Brexit has, as predicted by some, screwed the UK.

Some people just can't admit they've been mugged:

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UK is only G7 country with smaller economy than before Covid-19 | Economic growth (GDP) | The Guardian

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ONS says GDP grew by 0.2% in three months to June, suggesting Britain is not in recession

 

[Mark J]

2 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Defra pays ‘eye watering’ £86.5m IR35 bill  - Contractor & Business Weekly

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Defra has paid a total of £86.5m in backdated taxes to HMRC, after a lengthy investigation into historic...

I’ve just come to the end of a 4 year Hmrc investigation that cost me £131k to resolve 🤮. If government departments can’t conform or pass the cest verification process what chance have normal contractors got. 

Did you take your accountant to court over that?

[Mark J]

Scotland blocked from holding independence vote by UK's Supreme Court | CNN

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Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland's government cannot unilaterally hold a second referendum on whether to secede from the United Kingdom, in a blow to independence...

"The SNP were always going to "win" this regardless of which direction the courts went: they can either have the referendum, or they can't and it just proves there's no actual democracy. They've played a blinder here."

[Sutton]

3 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Defra pays ‘eye watering’ £86.5m IR35 bill  - Contractor & Business Weekly

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Defra has paid a total of £86.5m in backdated taxes to HMRC, after a lengthy investigation into historic...

I’ve just come to the end of a 4 year Hmrc investigation that cost me £131k to resolve 🤮. If government departments can’t conform or pass the cest verification process what chance have normal contractors got. 

This explains your position on the over 50s thread on Sunday. Our son worked under an umbrella agency getting pre-tax expenses and other perks. It all sounded too good to be true until the proverbial hit the fan. Glad it's over for you.

[trigger_andy]

26 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Scotland blocked from holding independence vote by UK's Supreme Court | CNN

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Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland's government cannot unilaterally hold a second referendum on whether to secede from the United Kingdom, in a blow to independence...

"The SNP were always going to "win" this regardless of which direction the courts went: they can either have the referendum, or they can't and it just proves there's no actual democracy. They've played a blinder here."

Nonsense. 
 

The once in a generation referendum has been held. The SNP used the fact that they needed approval from number 10 to hold it and we as a nation better make good use of this once in a generation vote as a major scare tactic. 
 

Well we chose the mystery box of promises from number 10 and instead of freedom we chose to be yoked to England with virtually no say in any matter. 
 

We have had our democratic vote. It’s over for this generation. It’s what we signed up for and it’s what we got. The SNP throwing temper tantrums will and has changed nothing. 
 

It’s worth keeping in mind more people in Scotland voted for Brexit than they did the SNP. They have no mandate here.

Edited November 23, 2022 by trigger_andy

[GarethM]

They were mooting again that the next election would be a vote for independence if they voted SNP again.

 

If the SNP were so confident why can't they raid the donors to pay for a referendum, wouldn't be legally binding but she needs a reality check instead of she-weeing our money against the wall.

[Mark J]

10 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Nonsense. 
 

The once in a generation referendum has been held. The SNP used the fact that they needed approval from number 10 to hold it and we as a nation better make good use of this once in a generation vote as a major scare tactic. 
 

Well we chose the mystery box of promises from number 10 and instead of freedom we chose to be yoked to England with virtually no say in any matter. 
 

We have had our democratic vote. It’s over for this generation. It’s what we signed up for and it’s what we got. The SNP throwing temper tantrums will and has changed nothing. 
 

It’s worth keeping in mind more people in Scotland voted for Brexit than they did the SNP. They have no mandate here.

Is there a limit on how many referenda a country can have on any given issue?
 

By your reasoning we shouldn’t keep having general elections.
 

The people voted once, that’s it, no more choices and you aren’t allowed to change your mind EVER?

It's worth keeping in mind that more people in Scotland voted to remain in the EU than to leave. 

[GarethM]

Referendum is not changing who runs a government tho is it, it's a vote to literally leave and not come back.

 

Ever few years they wouldn't be asking Scotland, fancy coming back would they.

 

How many times did the EU ask the Irish?.

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by GarethM

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Mark J said:

Is there a limit on how many referenda a country can have on any given issue?

I think the high court ruling has answered that question….

 

1 minute ago, Mark J said:

By your reasoning we shouldn’t keep having general elections.

What peculiar reasoning. You should have passed that soundbite onto Krankie, might have won her the case. 🙄

 

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

The people voted once, that’s it, no more choices and you aren’t allowed to change your mind EVER?

You do understand the concept of once in a generation right? 
 

3 minutes ago, Mark J said:

It's worth keeping in mind that more people in Scotland voted to remain in the EU than to leave. 

Then they should have voted for independence when they had the chance, huh? Too late now the milk has spilt. 
 

Yet my point stands, more people voted for Brexit than they did for the SNP, yet the SNP claim that the voters have given them a mandate for Indi2 based on the votes they got at the last election. Clearly this is not the case. 
There is not a poll I’m aware of that shows we wish to have another vote on Independence. Everyone is sick of the SNP and their dogged determination to keep pushing for independence instead of sorting out the very real issues we have in Scotland.