doobin
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All my vehicles are vans/trucks and I claim 80% overall for business use. Which I think is more than fair. Missus not on the books. Using capital allowances is not 'creative accounting to avoid paying tax'- it's an incentive to invest in your business and provide jobs/tax/vat. Who would bother otherwise if you couldn't write a digger off against your tax? It's not a grey area like a brand new double cab pickup (mine is fifteen years old BTW!)- it's business use only. So being penalised for this on a mortgage application sucks, and being penalised for it in any compensation from the government would be doubly unfair.
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OK for you to say that sat there in your PAYE job. The address could be interpreted either way. Clear as mud. Did he mean if travel for the work was essential or if the work itself was essential? And who gets to define essential? I'll keep working until law enforcement tell me otherwise, or BoJo puts his hand in his pocket like he has for everyone else and pays me not to.
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I earnt 56k last year. I used the first year capital allowances on a digger (investment in the business) to reduce this to 29k liability. Fair enough? I don't see any employees stumping up that kind of cash or risk.
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Most likely a 3 month payment holiday (which your commercial customers will of course avail themselves of too...) and a fiver a week ?
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They only closed once they know the Gov would pay the wages, now they're spinning it as them being selfless heroes. Get bent, Mc D's.
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Whilst neccesary in times of crisis (which this undoubtably is), two years is too long for such potentially draconian emergency powers to be granted. A rolling 6 months (to be agreed by Parliment) would have been better.
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The dealer was chancing it, as usual.
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Agree somewhat mate. Bottom line is you gotta be realistic about your own skills (and tools/workshop exquipment you've invested in) Mine personally far exceed that of most main dealers for something as simple as servicing a digger or chipper. Same with welding and fabricating- I started buying the gear because I was so fed up of so called professionals making a hash of my jobs I took them. On the flip side I've seen some right horror stories on kit where someone has got there before me and had a go.
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I've just thrown a suppposed 'low hour 2 year old' tracked dumper back at Cautrac for exactly that reason. Even worse with that is the hydrostat oil- as critical if not more so than the engine oil.
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Was it just a service or did stuff need welding etc? Not that any main dealer can weld properly!!
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You’ll soon learn more than your average main dealer 18 year old ‘fitter’
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Kubota engine filters are widely available, I go with cheapest on eBay- about a tenner for oil filter, £3 for fuel. Hyundai R17 hydraulic return filters are only around £15 which I thought very reasonable.
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I think that’s unreasonable, bobcat do first service for free!!? first service I guess normally subsidised at least as it’s a very important service. Truth be told I enjoy servicing them as much as driving them so maybe I’m a little biased. Oil and filters as you described would be around £50. So that’s £125 labour ish per machine. I could knock a machine out in an hour easy and that’d include greasing! but each to their own! Sounds a fair dealer price but I’d rather the money in my pocket for an easy couple hours work.
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Jesus Matt you could do it yourself for 50 quid in parts and a couple of hours. There’s nothing to them. A pound saved is a pound earned, and basic servicing is the one of the easiest ways to achieve this. Even if it took you all day you can’t tell me you’d have made £380 on a miserable wet day and have a full year of £380 days booked? Main dealers are renowned for tricks like Kev describes.
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Have you checked the system voltage with the jump pack attached? Can cause issues with computer control units.
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Other way round mate.
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How much work from trust a trader and check a trade.
doobin replied to essexjack's topic in General chat
This will give you a far better quality of customer than checkatrade et al. And much cheaper, but does require legwork. -
How much work from trust a trader and check a trade.
doobin replied to essexjack's topic in General chat
Remember that any business to business contract has no coming off period and renewal terms can be tricky to decipher. Be very very very careful what you sign. and don’t bother with check a trade, there’s only about five percent of the population left who still believe it has any credibility, and they’re about to be decimated by Coronavirus... -
If he wants a safe store that his missus can easily manage, then it may as well be in gold.
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If I'm reading it right then Andrew gave Jack the landscaping work. Didn't tell the client yes, £XXX per day and then pay Jack £XX. Just gave him the job. So half day for Monday is fair enough in my book.
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After reading that, my honest opinion is that JackR sounds like a run of the mill snowflake chancer (and that's not neccesarily a slur on him, perhaps it just reflects today's upbringing and society). Andrew sounds like a decent bloke. But that's just based upon what I've read. Maybe 10% of lads these days will be grateful for any time you give them helping them learn, and show an interest. 90% of these then go on to become their own boss, and have to deal with the 90% of young lads who think they're worth top money just for turning up.
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Budget - Fuel duty rebate on Red Diesel to be abolished!
doobin replied to Treechap WTS's topic in General chat
Tree surgery isn't horticulture or foresty. They've dropped a massive bollock here, and instead of clarifying the situtation WRT red, or even giving a level playing field, they've simple muddied the waters further. Every tree surgeon will be claiming they do forestry work and every countryside based digger firm will be claiming they do agricultural work. Those ripping the piss currently transporting plant on with tractors will continue to do so, and also rip the piss running diggers on red on domestic jobs. -
I can’t see house prices dropping save from a total apocalypse scenario. Way too much demand. Soon as one boomer drops dead another will buy their house with their gold plated inflation linked pension.
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Unless desperate for cash I’d leave the gold in his will to her- it’s going up in price and is a stable reserve in these uncertain times. It’s almost certainly only worth scrap money, but with that quantity it’s worth driving a bit to find a proper bulk dealer, not a pawn shop. A few quid extra per ounce will add up.
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You can spray it any colour you like, but without an etch primer coat first it won't stay there!
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