oh dear: Firms face new tax on staff e-mail to friends

[Lucifer Box]

Treasury sources suggested that the rules would not apply to computers required for office work, even if employees used them extensively for non-work purposes.

I might be being a bit slow here, but isn't this a massive get out? After all, what company buys kit that isn't "required"?

[privateeye]

After all, what company buys kit that isn't "required"?

Most Government Departments?

[Mailman]

What a ******* joke!

This is bloody rubbish...imagine if companies are forced to pay this tax and the increased burden on those same companies to install monitoring software (and to then store all that data for how ever long HMRC determines)! Quite simply unworkable!

If ever a country needed a revolution...its England. Imagine if they tried to impose this kind of tax in France (where you got taxed for the private use of cows for sex)...they be in a permanent state of revolt!

But then again...the very fact this law was passed without any protests from the English just goes to show how much you guys resemble sheep!

Mailman

[ASB]

But then again...the very fact this law was passed without any protests from the English just goes to show how much you guys resemble sheep!

The law is not passed. It is a part of the finance bill, slipped out under cover of briefing papers. There has been quite considerable noise about this potential change - as you yourself have noticed.

Of course the probability of it not ending up in the Finance Act and passed into law is probably about as high as that of me being pope by tomorrow.

By all means slag us all off as sheep - but figure out the system so your facts are straight first....

[swamp]

£500 exemption

So long as you don't have more than £2500 worth of kit, then your personal use should be covered by the £500 exemption.

And IMO servers, training/development machines have no conceivable "personal use" anyway.

[Ivor1]

When I saw that in the Metro today I had to check I had not picked up an old April 1st addition, I thought it was joke.

[AlfredJPruffock]

What a ******* joke!

This is bloody rubbish...imagine if companies are forced to pay this tax and the increased burden on those same companies to install monitoring software (and to then store all that data for how ever long HMRC determines)! Quite simply unworkable!

If ever a country needed a revolution...its England. Imagine if they tried to impose this kind of tax in France (where you got taxed for the private use of cows for sex)...they be in a permanent state of revolt!

But then again...the very fact this law was passed without any protests from the English just goes to show how much you guys resemble sheep!

Mailman

We need more taxes to fund more millitary campagins.

As a keen advocate for British Millitary intervention around the globe Mailman surely you dont begrudge paying more for our Boys in the front line ?


Fades to Land of Hope and Glory ....

[The Lone Gunman]

But then again...the very fact this law was passed without any protests from the English just goes to show how much you guys resemble sheep!

I had been wondering just what it was that made you Kiwis so fond of the place.

[Ivor1]

I had been wondering just what it was that made you Kiwis so fond of the place.

lol

[sasguru]

I had been wondering just what it was that made you Kiwis so fond of the place.

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