Paul Jenks

HM Revenue & Customs: Interest paid when Corporation Tax is overpaid or paid early This is for corporation tax, just looking to see if it applies to personal tax.

https://www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Publications/AADB/Complaints-June-2012.aspx This assumes the accountant is a bona fide accountant

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How much do you need and what's the timescale?

Get the serial number and run a check. Even if someone buys a saw in good faith, if it has been stolen, it'll be confiscated if taken for a service and the person may have a visit from the police.

That pine is native to Japan and South Korea so I'd guess Tokyo or Seoul

it's hardly going to be -7 in KL.

Depends on the audience. I've used the surgeon one before with varying degrees of success. Sometimes I'll say I'm a self-harmer, after a particularly tough day with hawthorn.

I started with NFU. A guide to self employment - NFU Mutual

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/se1.pdf Citizens Advice - Self-employment: checklist You could do worse than reading these. Be aware that if you are going to be working under the direction of the contractor or one of his staff, you are technically not self-employed. This has historically been used as a way of employers avoiding paying certain taxes and employee benefits. HMRC are catching up with this now so ask what sort of working relationship you are going to have with the contractor.

Our unit costs £20k a year + £8k in rates. We have 1000sqft of offices on 2 stories and the unit is 4000sqft. Only 10 or so years old. Toilets, showers, kitchen. Plenty of parking outside, enough room inside to store all plant and vehicles in the warm and dry. We are no longer embarrassed to invite clients over for coffee or tea and we can host training sessions here. Lots of lovely big trees to practice on and a lake to walk round or swim in. Oh, and a beer fridge. I can't stand mud. Got too much of that when working for someone else.

Our 2 turn up at the end of the month. Company colours too. (No our colours are not orange and black.)

As professional users, until there is a suite of saws for our needs, a local, trusted dealer, a years professional warranty on each saw, spare parts or replacement saws immediately available they won't get my business. Within certain reasonable limits the cost of a professional piece of equipment or tool should not really be a factor. Typically, one can rely on both Stihl and Husky to do the job you ask of them. (Yes they break from time to time but then so do most things.) Buy a cheap saw and it only has to let you down once or twice and it could well cost you more in lost time than buying a decent one in the first place.

For TPO trees there should be a site plan direct from the council. They, after all, were the ones who put the TPO on in the first place. It's available and most around here have it online. Do a check through the LA website of the address and you may discover a ready made site plan. Sometimes all the trees are handily marked on it too. Print off and add any extras, scan and send. My office does it all the time.

Really? I've always found Rob to be very helpful and keen to make a sale. All companies lose the plot from time to time. Maybe your instruction has been overlooked. It does happen.

He moves pretty quickly for a fat bloke. I was waiting for the blood or broken face, though fortunately, neither happened.

Hi Toby You sound as if you are really committed to this venture. If you are going to be working for a company as an employee, even as a trainee, you should have all your PPE supplied to you. There is no need to get yourself anything at the moment. Having said that you may be required to have chainsaw boots, trousers and climbing hard hat for your course. These are a good basic start, as any company offering you a trail day or days doesn't always have the resources to kit you out if you don't fit and don't end up working there. We'd be happy to have you over for a few days as a trial. We give people the option to join us if they fit regardless of their historic job title. We have a professional nanny, a care worker, a hairdresser, CAD designer and gunner. Email a suitable time for a trial and I'll ask our Office Manager and Ops Manager to liaise. YOLO, LL Paul

Rehabilitation for Tennis Elbow The bottom image on the LHS sort of shows where to massage, and massage is a bit of an understatement. Tennis elbow seems to occur when gripping with the arm flexed, just like when using a climbing saw one handed. The muscle/tendon collection on the top/inside of the forearm becomes calcified and to grip or straighten the arm becomes painful. This is down to the tendons trying to work against the calcification. The massage involves digging your thumb in, (from the other hand), where it's painful and working side to side combined with stretching. Works for me. Sometimes it's so painful, the massaging, it makes me feel sick. Keep at it though. little and often.

Pretty well what the last 2 said. A lot depends on your outlook and mindset. I'm not a big fan of sub-contractors, though I do employ a couple from time to time when we are inundated with work or have holidays to cover. I also don't like the way many companies avoid tax by using guys and girls as sub-contractors even though they are technically employed. If you're committed to building a business that'll support you and your family and your future, then why wouldn't you commit to your work colleagues by giving them some stability and security. Why would anyone want to get rid of people when work gets tight. Work harder to get work in. Commit to people and they'll commit to you. Costs vary, though you generally get what you pay for. Speak to HMRC and they'll give you the information. Payroll can be a ball-ache as can HR, contracts, holidays, PPE, employer's NI and all the other stuff. It's part of employing so deal with it and look at what you want to achieve. Don't let barriers to thinking get in the way. If you have someone who can help with your first foray into payroll for little or no money it makes it easier. It's daunting when you have hand over the first paycheque. When you get to £30k+ a month in payroll it's already someone else's problem as you have too many other things to do.

Most of the new ones seem to do this as they concentrate your weight in the leg loops and consequently up into your crutch. I know some trees and some operations don't lend themselves to this, though you could try thinking about putting more weight onto the tree when you climb. Your choice of trousers may also have an effect. Some of the makes out there finish the lining badly or with ridges right at the point where the leg loops are. Check this before changing. Certain types of material, (some of the Helly Henson stuff is bad for this), causes friction and is too short. Get some longer under shirts, adjust regularly and perhaps get some long, cotton, snug jockey shorts as these should cover your legs where the legs loops contact. I have an old style Willans that I find very comfortable, though I keep catching my funny bone on the side D-rings.

The new Hilux will do 3.5t. Also, you don't really get that many chippers weighing 3.5t. Unless you're towing biggish plant you don't get that many trailers at 3.5t. (And before everyone piles in whinging about how big their trailer is,) I'm talking about relative to the numbers of other trailers about. Landrovers have a larger towing capacity than some others. I thought the op was after a chipper truck. I'd rather have a 3L Japanese engine than a 2.5L transit engine. My advice would be to drive one around for a bit. The Land Rover/Japanese argument is older than the Stihl/Husky one. If your local garage services one or the other go with that. They all get beat up and broke at some stage.

If most of your work is fairly local, you're not too big, (i.e. <6' tall) and you have reasonable breakdown cover a land rover should do. They're uncomfortable, wallow a lot with a load of chip on and really don't go that many places other 4wd go. I'd get a hilux with a tipper. Even the Ford Rangers seem ok. Much nicer to drive too. The challenge is that a Land Rover fits the image and whether you have one new or 20 years old, most folk won't notice the difference. Turn up in a new Hilux and some will think you're a good professional outfit, others will think you get paid too much. Get an older one and the reverse may be true.

It means if it's less than a year old, take it back and let the professionals fix it under warranty so you can get back to earning money cutting trees. If it's more than a year old, take it back and pay the professionals to fix it so you can get back to earning money cutting trees.

As long as they're clean it doesn't matter. Makes me laugh when I see people working on the roads with filthy hi-viz. They might as well be wearing camo gear for all the good it does. Hi-viz jackets clean up a treat if you douse in washing up liquid and give a quick scrub with a stiff brush prior to washing with normal washing powder in a machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv2vNGwduOs Proper