No To Retro Tax - Ongoing battle against S58 FA2008

[BrilloPad]

Are there any others out there who feel totally isolated and left for dead?

Why didn't you join TAA?

[Kojak]

Why didn't you join TAA?

I was a De Graff user.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

I was a De Graff user.

Have you read the opening post on this forum?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...58-fa2008.html

[Kojak]

Have you read the opening post on this forum?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...58-fa2008.html

Yes.

[BrilloPad]

Yes.

So have you joined NTRT?

[Kojak]

So have you joined NTRT?

Of course and I paid my £200

[BrilloPad]

Of course and I paid my £200

I was under the impression that de graff users could join taa. Hopefully DR will be along soon to confirm.

I do feel for you. MP have stood by their scheme users and it is appreciated.

The more immediate concern for you though is APNs.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

I was under the impression that de graff users could join taa. Hopefully DR will be along soon to confirm.

Yes, TAA was open to deGraaf users, and a few have signed up.

In the last newsletter, we said that we would probably be re-opening the application process at some stage. If/when this happens it will be announced in a newsletter, and people would be able to sign up by following the instructions on this page:

TAA sign-up

NB. you need to be logged in to the NTRT website with your membership username to see this page.

[nearlyover]

Are there any others out there who feel totally isolated and left for dead?

A little (or possibly a lot given I paid up 2 APNs only to find out subsequently that a further appeal was possible). Certainly if you're not in TAA then NTRT doesn't appear to offer either pro-active advice or somewhere to discuss the latest developments. (Sample of 1, YMMV)

That said, CUK doesn't appear to be a hotbed of activity either so I think the set of NTRT members outside of TAA but on CUK must be fairly small.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

That said, CUK doesn't appear to be a hotbed of activity either so I think the set of NTRT members outside of TAA but on CUK must be fairly small.

NTRT has around 600 members in total. Excluding property developers, only around 500 contractors opted in to continue receiving general newsletters. I suspect a fair few of the remaining 100 have settled since we set up NTRT 3.5 years ago or, for other reasons, are no longer interested. One of our guys did follow up with individual emails to these people but he got very few responses.

Around 460 have either already signed up for TAA or are waiting for us to re-open the application process. So, it is a relatively small number of active members who have decided not to pursue it.