I am sure the butterflies are starting to flutter in everyones stomachs. I would just like to say keep your chins up and lets hope the judges are "fair" in their assessment. We all know that we are right in law but that the law seems to matter little. I for one hope we win not only because of the affect it will have myself and my loved ones but also because this whole situation makes a mockery of our parliamentary and legal systems.
HMRC seem to be above the law. They can buy stolen documents without penalty (Stolen docs story), they will quite happily sell their own property to offshore tax evading interests if it makes them more money Offshore property mess story but the rest of us who work within the law are screwed or could be if the blood sucking leeches don't get all of our money.
They get it anyway. Fuel taxes, VAT, property taxes, road taxes, income taxes, etc. There is not a single thing in our lives where they don't get their pound of flesh.
One thing that irks me about all of this is that they can change the law now and make it retrospective but they won't let us form a limited companies retrospectively, submit the £1500 to £2000 a month expenses it costs me to work away from home retrospectively and pay only the 20% corporation tax on the dividends that we would have paid retrospectively. Nope as far as they are concerned it is all PAYE and they want everything. I would have run a Ltd company if it wasn't for the ridicules IR35 legislation and uncertainty it brought. They don't make it easy for any of us to work within the law and earn a worthwhile living. No certainty in our liabilities.
HMRC stop wasting money persecuting the people your supposed to work for. Simplify the tax system and come up with a fair system which is consummate with the risks and compromises which people like us have to take. Don't expect us to pay the same as a full time employee when we don't get the holiday and sick pay, when we don't get the pension contributions and when we don't get the job security.
Right I am getting off my soap box now because I am getting more and more annoyed.
Here's hoping.
HMRC seem to be above the law. They can buy stolen documents without penalty (Stolen docs story), they will quite happily sell their own property to offshore tax evading interests if it makes them more money Offshore property mess story but the rest of us who work within the law are screwed or could be if the blood sucking leeches don't get all of our money.
They get it anyway. Fuel taxes, VAT, property taxes, road taxes, income taxes, etc. There is not a single thing in our lives where they don't get their pound of flesh.
One thing that irks me about all of this is that they can change the law now and make it retrospective but they won't let us form a limited companies retrospectively, submit the £1500 to £2000 a month expenses it costs me to work away from home retrospectively and pay only the 20% corporation tax on the dividends that we would have paid retrospectively. Nope as far as they are concerned it is all PAYE and they want everything. I would have run a Ltd company if it wasn't for the ridicules IR35 legislation and uncertainty it brought. They don't make it easy for any of us to work within the law and earn a worthwhile living. No certainty in our liabilities.
HMRC stop wasting money persecuting the people your supposed to work for. Simplify the tax system and come up with a fair system which is consummate with the risks and compromises which people like us have to take. Don't expect us to pay the same as a full time employee when we don't get the holiday and sick pay, when we don't get the pension contributions and when we don't get the job security.
Right I am getting off my soap box now because I am getting more and more annoyed.
Here's hoping.
That'll do. At least he's not a parker… sorry … I mean a puppet.
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