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Lo no it was a throw back from the early days of the North Sea ops Put in place to stop foreign guys “ mainly American “ jetting in and out and paying nothing in the way of tax.

The one thing the past 3 years has made me is far more tax savvy than I otherwise would ever have been. The reality of the situation is that I’d imagine the recovery figures the Hmrc had for the 48 guys involved with the agency I’m concerned with post and pre and investigation will be hugely different. The days of us all working 200 plus days a year offshore are over, who wants to give nearly 50% of your earnings for the privilege of missing your families and living on a boat cheek to jowl or in sat for weeks at a time. They literally have cut their noses off to spite their face. I guess the reality of a high tax non business friendly system does eventually start to have a detrimental effect. If you want to look at one of the most discriminatory bits of tax legislation you could imagine, try finding Schedule D taxation for Divers and Dive Supervisors only involved in oil and gas exploration/recovery within the HMRC guidance.

Like a lot of the most war hungry politicians, if everyone on here had actually seen active military service, or been under fire and experienced the consequences they might be a little bit more restrained. I do wonder if this situation would have occurred with trump in charge, especially with his attitude to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. It also brings into question the benefits of the so called peace dividend we often hear of.

3 years in Mark I assure you every avenue has been explored. The fault lies with the agency and the company, basically avoiding employers NI contritions, but the subsequent tax liability on top of what we had all paid as self employed as opposed to employees is what they went for and assigned to us as individuals. Unfortunately it all coincided with the price of oil crashing then followed by two years of covid insanity and ****************ing lockdowns.

I’ve got a good accountant. HMRC are very good at moving the goalposts or telling you after the event you should have done x y or z.

Not at all Mark. The agency all 48 of us worked through is finally under investigation and sadly the client company has closed its doors due to a £4 million Hmrc debt, the result of a large scale investigation into the whole saga. The end result is not gonna change much but that and the acknowledgment by the investigation team from the revenue that we had no choice but to work this way is a small consolation. The fact that they have waived all penalties and interest is at least something.

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Crap as usual citizen smith, what’s most definitely not christian is deliberately exploiting every opportunity to not pay tax and boasting about it, then spouting anti Tory bile at every opportunity.

How don’t I ??. Allowing people to look after themselves without massive damaging state interference and christian beliefs are totally compatible.

Once again you quickly stopped wondering and started presuming followed by lecturing.

Why you interested if I attend church or not. It It is thankfully still a predominantly christian country.

? What’s that got to with anything

Because we are predominantly a christian country. Having worked with a good few Ukrainian guys offshore predominantly in the role of dynamic positioning officer on dive support vessels ive found them to be absolutely great guys with an outstanding family and work ethic.

Weather days Les no work and too much time on our hands 🙄 I’m not proud to say it but I’ve seen Mr Holmes in his vhs heyday. I’d rather watch cooks sawmill videos nowadays.

That’s a European not UK forces bit of kit. I guess if you are in a heavily wooded countryside then the timber has its uses.

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That’s how I see it built in edger 👍

What !! “ John Holmes”

No kidding Andy, 👍

SNP not show any sign of following any science at all.

Scottish Covid powers to be extended by six months WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK Ministers want the option of enforcing face masks and vaccine passports until late September. Scotland sadly is being ran by a power hungry control freak. If anyone ever had any doubt about how an independent Scotland would work out they should just take a look at the last 2 years.

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There are numerous places around the UK where low and high water slack can be measured in mins, the Severn barrage has been spoken of for years but no progress. The current boom in wind farms is nothing short of a National disgrace, if people realised how virtually zero of the structures being put up or vessels used to install are built here or crewed by UK nationals they’d be shocked, billions being made by overseas yards and foreign energy companies with virtually no benefit to the UK workforce or taxpayers.