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[AtW]

Your offshore company in Panama owns the router. They rent it to your UK company for £20k per year.

As it is rented you get the full taxable allowance of £20k

You pay flat rate tax of £200 to your Offshore Company.

"Expenses" for running the company are made through the offshore ATM card.

[eek]

Only if you do not exceed your Annual Investment Allowance which goes down next year to pathetic £25k

And there you highlight an actual reason for moving to the cloud. You end up with a company whose only asset is some intellectual property providing a charged for service using cheap server space in Dublin or the USA.

The question you're left asking is where in the world do I get paypal to send the subscription payments to.

[AtW]

Do you think many clouds offer 10 GBE level networking (between servers, not switches) with appropriately specced boxes connected to it at a cost that is not crazy?

The tax system is certainly completely ****ed when companies get charged corp tax on buying essential machinery for business.

[doodab]

The tax system is certainly completely ****ed when companies get charged corp tax on buying essential machinery for business.

Yes but don't worry because the government will support entrepreneurs by abolishing the 50% income tax band.

It clearly hasn't occurred to them that sorting out the ******* mess of bureaucracy and making it easier to become a 50% tax payer in the first place would do more to encourage entrepreneurs.

[AtW]

Yes but don't worry because the government will support entrepreneurs by abolishing the 50% income tax band.

Entrepreneurs don't get reward in salary of £150k usually, it's CGT that's more important and as you say lack of general red tape to actually make business successful, to be fair I would not say it's too bad in this country, high taxes certainly far more important to deal with.

[PAH]

Do you think many clouds offer 10 GBE level networking (between servers, not switches) with appropriately specced boxes connected to it at a cost that is not crazy?

Welcome to the Performance, Reliability, Cost paradigm where you can choose only two.

[AtW]

Welcome to the Performance, Reliability, Cost paradigm where you can choose only two.

B0ll0x.

You can choose High Performance, High Reliability and High Cost at the same time.

[MarillionFan]

Considering buying replacement switch, looking at £5k minimum cost

WTF!!!!!

[d000hg]

If only that was the case. Amazon is painful as you end up managing virtual servers all the time.

I don't know that's the case is it, with the APIs and whatnot?

Anyway, if Apple can run their system on the cloud I reckon SKA is a candidate too: Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services ? The Register

Have Google got on the cloud bandwagon yet - I know they have cloudy apps but not the same thing? Seems inevitable and this is an area they would actually know something about after all.

[d000hg]

B0ll0x.

You can choose High Performance, High Reliability and High Cost at the same time.

Well done AtW. You made your first joke.