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I cobbled something similar together many years ago out of scrap timber - needs replacing really now. The one in the pic above looks too tall (unstable.). Also, worth considering making it big enough for a barrow to slip in underneath - cut, drop, move with minimal picking up. I can get about a dumpy bag full in one go if I stack him right up!

I didn’t quite grasp the original question Al. I wasn’t sure if there was an element of sarcasm or a gag that I didn’t ‘get.’ To get a £7k VAT rebate you have to have bought stuff that’s VAT rateable @20% which exceeds the amount of VAT you’ve charged on the goods you’ve supplied that are VAT rateable. Do work invoiced at £1000 + VAT (£200) invoice £1200 pass £200 to HMRC. Buy stuff invoiced at £2000 + VAT (£2400) End of ¼ you pay HMRC £200 but they ‘owe’ you £400 Rebate = £200 How you doing BTW? Barter, exchange and swap is a much better system all round, no need to subsidise some shiny ass office barsteward taking a slice of your cake ??

??? that’s my approach too ???

Understood, I only meant it as an illustrative point. Mostly you have to pass VAT on, but sometimes a rebate arises. The point was that out of those rebates, when they happen, it’s possible (if you wanted to) to suck up some minor price reductions for domestic customers. On a side issue, building and yard work? I had some ‘issues’ with HMRC attempting to disallow certain elements of infrastructure which resulted in me taking them to Tribunal - and spanking them ? I’ll have to brush up on the detail but some caution might be advisable claiming building works.

But you can suck up 84.3 £83 ‘losses’ from smaller domestic jobs out of the £7k per ¼ and still break even! (Less professional feed for accountant - if applicable)

I bet I hate HMRC more!

You won’t..... There aren’t any!

My point was genuinely non partisan Egger. It doesn’t matter (in this regard) who’s in office - they all subscribe to broadly similar principles of consume, expand, tax to fund the economic cycle. It’s just the levels and allocations of spending from tax income that slightly differs. It’s the engine that’s broke, whoever is in office are just the mechanics tinkering with the settings and levels and (in the macro macro sense) are pretty irrelevant. The ENGINE needs changing - then maybe the mechanics can adjust their working practices as they start to learn their trade. Tory / Labour / Lib Dum - all using the same knackered toolkit to tinker with a out dated and unsustainable power plant.

You couldn’t make it up Mark. Whenever a ‘benefit’ is rolled out, they’ll be just as many ‘needy’ as there are ‘grabby’ Madness!

It’s f”cking bonkers Egger! But maybe the beginning of the end of the ridiculous Ponzi scheme of spend and tax, earn and tax which is capitalism and consumerism. T’other day there were concurrent news stories on wireless about government needing to ‘encourage’ punters back to the high street to spend money (they haven’t got on shite they don’t need) to ‘reinvigorate’ the economy, Immediately followed by a feature on burgeoning personal debt! I was genuinely dumbfounded!

Yome alright @eggsarascal? Word is they found a bag of bones in the river. Anyone we know?? Murder inquiry after human bones found in River Stour in Sudbury https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53942532

With the exception of the nipper being off school, hasn’t made a shite of a difference to me. I don’t see many folks anyway, haven’t been on holiday (which has troubled the Mrs more than it has me - I’d just as happy stay home anyway.) Was nice when the roads were quiet but that all went for a burton when the Marmaris masses couldn’t FO to Turkey for a fortnight so Cornwall was gridlocked from the easing of UK travel. Went to the tyre shop today, miserable boot behind the counter started moaning that I didn’t have a mask on - whilst she sat there all day without a mask on. Yep, what little credibility there ever was was pretty much pissed away by Cummings and Johnson Snr minching off to Greece. Maybe different if yome one of 10s of thousands cramming onto the underground everyday, but if you live in town you’ll be surrounded by townies.

I was thinking along the lines of theft by conversion but, having just had a read, it seems Criminal Damage Act 1971 is a better fit. Mynors 13.7

That's a good analogy. The pic below is not 'exactly' in line with the scenario - but any excuse to use it is must be grabbed ?

Totally agree. Often's I used to spend time 'chatting' on potential job sites and just waffling on about trees in general. Only to find matey from down the pub did it for the firewood. Had a real beauty a month or so back: Phone call at 8 o'clock at night asking if I'd go and have a look at a tree that needs "...a couple of branches taking off..." Me - Where are you, what sort of tree is it, can you describe what it is you think you want to do? Them - Well, its a tree, can you come and have a look? Me - Where are you? Them - Lanivet. Me - Can you take some pictures and email them to me so I'd have a better idea of what the problem is? Them - No. I could mail you a picture but that'd take too long. Why can't you just come and have a look? Me - Because it'll take 2 hours out of my day and I don't really want to run around all over Cornwall looking at trees unless you want to cover the time and miles. Them - 2 hours? Where are you? Me - Liskeard. Them - I can get to Liskeard in 45mins. Me - That's as maybe but I expect you'd want to go home afterwards too? So that'll be 45 mins travelling each way and 15-30 mins to have a look at the tree. Them - Well.... How much would that cost? Me - Fifty pence per mile and £50/hour. Them - Oh, is that it then, end of conversation? Me - Up to you really.... You're looking at £150 + VAT for the time and travel otherwise I'm running all over Cornwall "looking at trees" and not earning any money. Didn't seem too happy for some reason..... Might have got the sense that I didn't really appreciate an 8PM phone call to look at a tree which MIGHT need a couple of branches off which is a 50 mile round trip away....

That is an unarguable truth K! However, the 'arb' that would most likely be 'missing out' in these circumstances would likely be the character that has done some work before and is local. I dread to think what sort of 'advice' one might get from that source. It is, of course true, that a householder may get a bundle of free 'opinions' from AT, and it's a bit like ask the audience - there'll be a reasonable spread of responses and it might be possible to take the mean average as a possible best way forward - or to use that as the sounding board and confidence check for the individual advice supplied by the local tarmaccer. Now then, which of the contributors above that suggested a bottle of screech was appropriate was involved in this scenario? Come on, we know your tricks!

It’s all very well you laughing @Bolam, as I was reading the earlier posts I was thinking “that’s a pre-Stella” reply.... Itd be crazed mob and flaming torches “post-Stella.” (Or maybe I’m just applying my own likely response...)

Find a closer chip drop. I rarely travel more than 20mins to a JOB let alone a tip site!

I’ll go out on a limb then..... You've had your pants royally pulled down! The tree surgeon is a chancer that knew full well he wasn’t dealing with the tree owner and any invoice he wants to draw up is due to the person that engaged him - there’s no contract with you. Actually, he’s stolen your property and possibly trespassed whilst doing so. The farmer is in similar territory. So you weren’t on site. ‘Reasonable’ would have been sever the stem and push the tree to one side for you to deal with at your discretion (and expense) later. That would have been a bottle of malt as a thank you Yes, it may have cost +/- £850 - £1000 to sort later, or it might have cost £0 if left to naturally decompose but that would have been YOUR decision. What’s done is done, Id agree the hassle of getting heavy about it now is likely more trouble than it’s worth - but if such liberties are not highlighted, discussed and resolved they are guaranteed to continue. The farmer needs telling that he doesn’t enter or act beyond his own land and the tree surgeon should be told that he’s stolen your timber, can send his invoice to his mate and expect no future work or recommends. Unless resolved, you should expect similar liberties in the future. It’s a load of pony what’s been written above about feeling ‘obliged’ to them.... Could you post up your address? Next time I’m passing I’ll just nip indoors, make myself a sandwich, kick my boots off, put my feet up, pour myself a beer and watch your TV. Then, if you’re not happy, I’ll offer to bill you for my time and effort

I think I get your point there.... The 'responsibility' for checking validity of submitted documents certainly lies with the LA - agreed. (we know how that often goes....) Are you contending then that the applicant / agent bears no responsibility for false / inaccurate entries? I know it's just pushing the point to the extreme, but, well, you know....

We liked Fauda, worth a look.

Only after it’s escaped from your wallet!

It’s a bit savage, and a truly dreadful example of human nature, but you don’t really need to hide them, just cut the horn off and they become invisible to the barbarous bastards that hunt them for trophy or oriental medicine.

Prickly you say......! People normally shorten that a bit when I’m on a rant ???

That all makes perfect sense Jules. im now thinking (not in direct relation to this example, but more broadly to try and get closer to that ever elusive definitive answer ?) (a) acknowledging the inability of current planning law to remedy and likely inadequacies in LAs checks and controls, there still remains the false representation for financial gain and proceeds of crime routes. Pretty big hammer but.... Applicant and / or agent say No/No and gain consent, house value increases by XX. That’s a financial gain by false representation. LA records show TPOs, planning app says No/No, work undertaken and property value increase. All the records are there - open & shut case unless they were to somehow claim ignorance. (b) there is no way a chartered professional architect and the planning officer could have NOT seen the TPO trees that they MUST have walked within 3m of when they did site visits.