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if its 5* then i wouldnt mind a holiday :lol:
@kent f OBE wrote:
if its 5* then i wouldnt mind a holiday :lol:
All inclusive I believe kenty :lol: :wink:
no Tweety there are not cliques here as far as I can see, and I’ve been posting since April, but obviously some people take to individuals banter and humour more than others just as in “real life” :lol:
@will wrote:
me.. if you’ll have me. :D
Don’t do it tweety ……… everyone has had will,he’s just soooooooooooo easy :shock: :wink:
I have been self-employed for about 18 years, as an illustrator.
Nobody likes parting with money but I accept that I have to pay tax like everyone else does. I reckon that I’ve been no better and no worse off, tax-wise, compared to an employed person.The biggest problem for self-employed taxpayers is not the amount of tax they have to pay, but the difficulty of the system which I still find confusing after 18 years. The tax people must find it confusing too, judging by the number of unexpected refunds I get.
One thing that would help everyone, particularly the self-employed, would be for National Insurance to be abolished completely and the money added to income tax instead.
I think there are ways of deferring tax for the newly self-employed but you get a shock a bit later on with a bigger tax bill. I didn’t do that myself so I don’t know. The crucial thing for self-employed is to keep records of all your financial transactions – you are required by law to do this – particularly all your bank statements musty be kept for 6 years.
8% tax looks like a fairly light burden – when you’re earning a significant amount you’ll be paying 25% or more!
More successful businesses = richer people
There’s always someone who becomes poorer, unless the economy relies on property and share prices going up and up to fund more and more lending, and we know where that’s got us!
I guess it’s just the left winger in me coming out. I just believe that if the government allowed people’s businesses to boom, and/or even help them boom, then in the end everyone can pay higher taxes and thus less poorer people, more taxes, and a much better state owned service such as the NHS, re-nationalise industry and the railways and let people’s businesses boom.. then the richer you get, the more taxes you pay – everyone’s a winner.
Stop taxing the poor, stop penalising those attempting to setup businesses, and tax the rich!
@tweety wrote:
Oh dear i left my last boards due to cliques. Hope theres none here. :?
JC has always been full of cliques, although most have been culled sometime last year I believe, they’ll always exist.
They’re harmless though – just ignore them and don’t rise to their bait :wink:
@will wrote:
tom is entitled to his opinion. dont worry tom this happens alot when sumbody dares to disagree with the clique.
I’ve been through all this years ago, Will, the place never changes. I had 6 years of being abused by the clique. The clique always changes usernames but they’re always essentially the same.
Anyone who isn’t on their MSN is “not welcome” on JC and thus must be abused, hounded and bullied until they stop expressing their opinions, stop posting and/or leave.
I’m afraid I’ve had bigger cliques for breakfast in my time so I’m not interested in their trolling this time around! I leave ’em to their chest thumping. It’s only them that look like cretins.
Start a perfectly reasonable socialist thread and I get abuse thrown at me. Perhaps they’re all Thatcherist scum and I’ve offended the capitalist pigs.
Nice to see we’re all tarred with the same brush…
Anyone who isn’t on their MSN is “not welcome” on JC and thus must be abused, hounded and bullied until they stop expressing their opinions, stop posting and/or leave.
I’ve been on JC for years and I’m not on anyone’s MSN or any other messaging and I’m not in a clique and I’ve never had any problems. A few battles, yes, but that’s to be expected here!!!!
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