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[malvolio]

That's not quite the same thing, since you could justify that sas a business expense and save the CT and VAT on top.

Also your claim for staff entertainment and the like has to be spent on staff entertainment and the like. With receipts... ...

[malvolio]

Not knowing your particular circumstances of course, but I said £100k because that was MyCo's average annual earning over the 26 years I was actively in contract (as opposed to now, when someone else is doing the work...). If I claimed ever potential penny I could had have added about £500 a year...

[malvolio]

You really don't understand Pareto do you......

[malvolio]

They are so trivial I've never bothered. An extra couple of hundred out of a six figure income is too much effort.

And you are not an employee of your company, you are a salaried officer. Big difference.

[malvolio]

You do realise that HR stands for Human Remains...?

Dealt with them for many years in many companies with my interim manager hat on. With very few exceptions, they are in HR because they can't hack any kind of production work....

[malvolio]

In May 2025 the agreement was signed off by Parliament to meet the demands of the (somewhat suspicious) international ruling and the USA weren't stopping us. However, the payments involved were "negotiated" rather later...

More to the point, we were not in any legal sense required...

[malvolio]

Having lived in he UK for almost all the last 70-odd years, "us" is a fairly clear group, I would have thought. Ditto the values and behaviours that evolved over the centuries to encompass how the population of the UK like to live and be treated.

Similarly, the group calling itself...

[malvolio]

Which ignores my salient argument. A home-legislated Human Rights Act, to replace the one foisted on us by Blair, ruled by our own judiciary and reflecting our values would not be inferior or more draconian than the one we have now. It should, however, allow us to decide where and how to apply it. A...

[malvolio]

But all that means is we replace a generic European set of rules with our own set of rules, without the risk of being overridden by a non-UK judiciary. Since we wrote most of the original rules after WW2, we aren't about to step back into the dark ages, merely set our own parameters.

Of...

[malvolio]

I wouldn't do too many calculations based on today's rates. they are vey likely to change come October...

CT can be rolled back into previous years, but I'm not sure of the details these days and whether or not the company has to be trading....

[malvolio]

Fair enough. I merely countered someone saying they were rubbish, which was not my experience.

It's just saying "they are a bit crap" without explaining why (or pointing to objective evidence why) is rather pointless. All I was sayin is that if you need customer services to intervene,...

[malvolio]

In what way? Money is handled properly and quickly, I have efficient card processes, it talks to Freeagent and the online app works without fuss. Interest rates are crap, but so are most other banks, and my money is parked in rather more profitable places anyway. If there is crap in the services, perhaps...

[malvolio]

Speaking as someone working in and around customer service for many years, there is potentially a fallacy at work.

It occurs to me that many companies are stressing the quality of their service, when what it really means is that you need to make use of their support services because something...

[malvolio]

AH. Not long after posting his, I got a letter from HSBC saying the £8 a month is being dropped so no further routine charges......

[malvolio]

Funny. Used HSBC for thirty years. Had one problem in 2005 (corrupted account password), fixed over the phone in 20 minutes, never had a glitch of any kind ever since. It just works...

For the financially sensitive among us, it costs £8 a month in bank charges now, or around £2k since...

[malvolio]

You won't be told the specifics, it would rather defeat the whole purpose of vetting if you know what they are looking for. It is a risk assessment for a specific set of circumstances so you can't even compare one with another.

FWIW it might not even be anything in your past. Your social...