Johnsond

Explain the twenty year delay ? And why even government departments are falling foul of the widely criticised calculation used to decide if you are in or out ??.

Lol IR35 was devised when ?? 20 plus years ago and only last couple of years they decided to implement a bullshit set of criteria that basically not even government departments can decypher

You have previously bigged up Sturgeon and the way she runs things up here hence I put the original post up. You are wrong about the blanket ban. All IR35 has done is shafted a load of decent hard working guys who are now forced to go through agencies on reduced rates or have turned their back on the offshore game. The big players have operated legitimately for 40 plus years like this Mark.

Don’t be a pretentious dick Mark. I don’t operate ltd company offshore by the way and mine is surviving just fine on the stuff I do outside of UK continental shelf oil and gas etc, but many whom did and now can’t are not falling foul of IR35 but rather a blanket ban on using ltd company contractors as it’s too much hassle or risk to the big players to run the checks who used to hire thousands of them. Who benefits from this ?? Certainly not the guy grafting, possibly Hmrc but normally some parasite agency running umbrella set ups. You totally ignored the point of my reply and the fact that high tax rates are reducing actual tax take in Scotland If IR 35 is so great ( which most experts agree it’s not and has failed in its remit) explain the link ?? and how you benefitted from it as opposed to the normal ltd company set up you have mentioned in the Defra hit with £48million tax bill over IR35 status ‘inaccuracies’ WWW.CONTRACTORUK.COM Latest department to bodge the taxman’s off-payroll rules takes his public sector windfall for... HMRC hits Home Office with £33.5m bill over ‘careless’ application ... WWW.COMPUTERWEEKLY.COM The Home Office is the latest ministerial department to be hit with a multimillion-pound tax... I can put these up all night and dozens of statements by financial experts stating IR35 is not fit for purpose.

Lol Mark it’s the newspaper reporting the IFS report bud 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ It’s all over the news up here bud, sorry if you don’t want to hear it. The link you posted is the governments own site 🤷‍♂️. Or does Murdoch manage the IFS source too??. Dispute it if you want or dont Mark it makes no difference to me I’m telling you the truth. 41% up here after 43k 40% after 50k over the border stick some NI on and bang your at 50%. Maybe it’s the thought of giving half your wages to the snp for being away from your family for weeks at a time but lads are knocking back trips to stay at a certain level. A tax system that encourages you not to work is a failure As the drop in revenues have proven. A decent accountant or not you can only get the figures down so far legitimately especially as ltd companies are not allowed in many cases nowadays post IR35. You wouldn’t work for half your day rate Mark, not even to fund your socialist crush Sturgeon. Please don’t quote some shite about NSea oil as that mad bunch of fools were until a few weeks ago wanting to shut the whole bloody place down to keep her green majority vote partners sweet. Just been reading the report you put the link up to Mark 🤷‍♂️ what was it that you thought was gonna contradict the reported drop in tax revenues caused by increasing tax rates ??.

High tax rates in Scotland bring in £200m less, says IFS WWW.THETIMES.CO.UK Imposing higher rates of income tax on residents in Scotland has triggered a decline in revenues... heres one for Mark J !!. Not surprisingly since the SNP upped the tax rates in Scotland the actual tax take has fallen. The socialist desire to take from the hard working to spend as they see fit does not seem to be quite working out as envisaged. I know from my own experience since the tax rises up here that guys have hit a point and stopped working deeming the sacrifices vs rewards just not worth it. I often wonder if the 25% across the board concept after say a 15k tax free start would bring in more long term than all the various bands.

Partygate is really about leadership, lies and the death of trust WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK Our unwritten constitution rests on the behaviour of public servants. That’s why the PM cannot simply... One of the few whom had the guts during the covid farce to actually speak up and point out what was utterly wrong with the approach taken. He definitely nails it on this occasion regards our spendthrift pm.

There are millions of law abiding decent people in the US and in many European and Scandinavian countries whom legally hold firearms and do not go on killing sprees. The question should be what is it in today’s society that planted this idea in the head of an 18 year old young man.

He’s sold his forrester and the generator to go with it. Looked like a cracking bit of kit too for the big hardwoods. Yeah he’s a nice guy to deal with. Very knowledgeable.

Yeah 👍

?? I totally agree good training and regular drills 👍. I certainly fired more than 100 during my time in the army mind you I was an infantryman so it’s what we were about.

More likely that lockdowns meant that there were no mass gatherings of defenceless people, such as in schools, at which the Gun Nuts could enact their sick Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia APPLE.NEWS A woman at a birthday party drew her pistol and left the gunman with multiple... The other side of the coin. I guess she is a sick gun nut. Your reply 42 was just a a standard cliche notjing more. It’s far more to do with societal issues than firearms. If I lived over there I’d most definitely be going down the concealed carry route and I absolutely admire the attitude of the police if you “ a law abiding armed citizen “ defend your home and family from any intruders.

That’s it Mull piece of piss eh, cant understand why every sound individual doesn’t have one eh. I can imagine the other FAC holders on here are wondering what all the fuss was about.

Average time from application to issue for a first time FAC is nearly a year Mull. Probationary periods at clubs which you obviously along with the medical checks weren’t aware of can easily stretch into longer. But you still say it’s not difficult eh 🤷‍♂️. As I stated it’s probably easier in fact to obtain an illegal firearm if you do desire than a legal one.

I’ll remember to tell my FLO that next time I speak to him. Thankfully the protocols in place in the UK do in fact seem to weed out the Walter Mitty bullshit artists or indeed tossers whom seem to think obtaining a firearm is easy.

Dear oh dear mull. I’ve been an FAC holder for over 25yrs I’m currently going through my sixth renewal process. I also hold my SGC and the bullshit Scot gov air weapons cert.

You ask about probationary periods yet quote target shooting as a good reason ?? Anyone whom joins a Home office approved club needs to go through a probationary period regardless of previous experience. Medical checks and a questionnaire completed by your gp have been part of the firearms licensing process for a good while now.

Mull you obviously have zero understanding of what it takes to obtain and retain an FAC.

If I’m not mistaken the armed teacher training programs have been going for a few years already.

Easy enough to get a gun legally you say Mull !!! That’s absolutely incorrect. We have some of the strictest firearms laws of any developed nation. Good reason to possess, medical checks, probationary periods etc etc in all honesty it’s easier to get a firearm illegally than legally in the UK.

Mark that has to be the biggest load of propaganda bullshit I’ve ever wasted my time reading. Absolute utter tosh bud im suprised that even you think that has any credibility.

Nicola Sturgeon faces begging Whitehall for extra funds after £3.5bn overspend APPLE.NEWS SNP will have to get support, cut benefits or raise taxes, says IFS Well Andy “ maybe better off heading back to Norway bud” it’s not gonna be hard to guess which group in society the socialist nazi party goes for to fill the gaps.

He’s a politician Andy !! they all lie bud. Seems a lot of the covid zealots are very annoyed too 🤔 bit angry they swallowed the line maybe 🤷‍♂️. I tend to agree with a previous post, it’s all a distraction or sideshow. Petrol is just creeping up regardless of $ per barrel figure, the everyday cost of living is skyrocketing , Ukraine is witnessing wholesale slaughter and its grain exports etc are on hold which very shortly will effect us all even more than it has already yet the media is obsessed with partygate crap. On a slightly different tack all this doesn’t seem to be doing the ruble any harm at all.

Give you a shout tomorrow Andy 👍

Contract cutting oak today, the guy is semi retired but has probably cut more hardwood in his working life than I’ll ever see. Doesn’t matter how old or experienced you are it’s good to spend time around old boys whom have been there and done it.