I'm retiring soon after 40 years as a VAT adviser in HMRC, Big 4, Mid tier and small firms. One thing I'm not going to miss, is amateur VAT 'experts' on X.
It’s quite simple.
As a general rule essentials aren’t subject to VAT. A good example of this is biscuits. Biscuits aren’t VATable, they’re food. Chocolate biscuits, a “luxury”, are.
Education, being an essential, isn’t VATable. Private education, being a luxury, will be.
@rowlandsbb
@DrRosena
She is not 'irrelevant to the management of the epidemic', she is a Shadow Cabinet member doing her job, and also works shifts in the A&E dept of St Georges Hospital, Tooting.
@douglasbulloch
@thenickpepper
@nationaltrust
Where's your evidence for public support? I thought the membership recently rejected Restore Trust in a vote? Why don't you denigrate them for using NT's IP, without permission, for their own purposes?
@markydh
@bendepear
@Channel4News
It's not 'verging', we're way down the slippery slope.The damage has been done. First Brexit; next they'll knobble the next election campaign, then it'll be climate change. We're on the US trajectory.
If Britain is the easiest, simplest and most convenient country in the world to trade with, it will make us a natural hub for many global industries. 🇬🇧
#PM4PM
@MooseAllain
Wow, we were visiting Exeter recently to see my daughter at University. You can see that tree from her window, and my husband said the same thing!
@Femi_Sorry
Last week we had to go out to collect our frightened daughter who'd been cat called on river bank by a large group of males. Too afraid to walk past them again to get home, she walked miles out of her way to the next bridge. Not relevant, but was covered from neck to mid shin.😡
@EmmaKennedy
I'm going with the little girl who never takes her coat off ensuring her father gets a long stretch, and then killing TLR just by 'looking' at him.
@youngvulgarian
This focuses on shopping/pubs/bars etc though, not office culture. I suspect even if ppl want to come to the office, the
#costoflivingcrisis
still a big factor. Once you've saved the cost of 5 lattes & a sandwich a week, plus travel, you can't unsee it.
@douglasbulloch
@thenickpepper
@nationaltrust
Just because it's a "National body" doesn't mean it doesn't own the rights to its IP. Try faking an ad from the Police or HMRC and see where that gets you. If Restore Trust were being explicit they should use their own logo.
@danielmgmoylan
@NickTayNorfolk
Except they're not minor, as trade figures show; you sold Brexit as having *no* inconveniences, only upsides, with "the exact same benefits"; & got yourself an Irish passport to keep *your* EU freedoms. You do accept therefore that no respect is due to it, you or your opinions?
@Sime0nStylites
"Brexit" isn't failing/ did not fail. The UK succeeded in leaving the EU. It's the UK that's failing, because (among other things) Brexit succeeded.
@NikkiHesford
@Abster_1983
@PaulBrandITV
Summing up: employers are allowed to to pay wages that don't provide people with basic living standards, & your business is actually funded by taxpayers, via renting to people on benefits. Who's the "benefit scrounger" here?
@guyshrubsole
There's been some horrible footage on here recently showing foxes which have gone to earth, being "dug out" by hunters with spades and then thrown to the dogs. It's illegal, and it's not sport. Hunts seem confident they won't be prosecuted.
#foxhunting
@RevRichardColes
One of the staff on our local service hails from the other side of the Atlantic. When he says it, it comes out as "See it, say it, sordid".
This, incisive as ever.. In years to come this blog should be a set text for A level British
#history
. And the first commentary I've seen to nail the UK
#VAT
e commerce issue correctly.
#Brexit
Brave new world. New post on my (newly renamed) Brexit & Beyond Blog looks at why and how to analyse post-transition Brexit realities, reviews the early effects, and discusses demands to come together/ move on from Brexit. Long read for the weekend:
@Eli5Elias
@historylvrsclub
Very. Excruciating pain and permanent disablement. Because men were supposed to like small feet. Nothing "mystical" about it.
@PatrickAllies
It's impossible these days due to the total commodification of Christmas, which starts around late September. Someone's already posting photos of Easter Eggs on supermarket shelves.
🔴 Post-Brexit Britain: A Rotting, Corrupted State
@chrisgreybrexit
explores why the UK's departure from the EU cannot be separated from other challenging political and public developments in Britain today
@Samfr
This is off. It's not "animal welfare stuff" it's *everyone's* environment. Birds are the canaries in the mine here. And this Govt hasn't ever listened on child poverty unless a celeb got involved.
@DanNeidle
@andymacdawlish
Cooking chocolate is sold as an ingredient. The cocoa solids in it will be less than in "eating" chocolate. If you can't tell the difference, fine, but mostly cooking chocolate tastes like soap.
@JamesAHogg2
Couldn't love him more. His name's employed in some choral circled as musical shorthand for a certain timbre required from the altos...
#bemoreBrian
@jenny_walker3
@matt_dathan
Please educate yourself. Processing donations and gift aid is complex and costly. Small charities don't have the resources to do that.
@JustGiving
makes it easy and cost effective for charities to collect donations. But they have staff and costs to pay. This is gutter journalism.
@BBCR4Feedback
@BBCRadio4
Once radio tuned to Radio 4 in nearly every room; started with 'Today' & went on to listen to what came after. But utter failure to report facts & hold lying politicians to account, esp since Referendum, meant we tuned to other stations in mornings; we didn't tune back.
@cels1952
@PeterStefanovi2
None at all for trade with EU. All you had to do was put goods on lorry or post & invoice. Rest done via VAT accounting, no Customs. Simples. That's why easy for small biz. Anyone in cross border biz knew all this: Tory Govts pretended they could brush it all aside.
@redalphababe
Please will someone make a gif of "I'll leave it with you....twats" for all the grumpy old women out there who are good at their job? Asking for a friend.
#HappyValley
@slim_douglas
@lewis_goodall
He was very careful to say 'with' not 'from' , but congratulations on downplaying what has been a tragedy for thousands of families.
@PJTheEconomist
I had a friend at University who came from Trinidad. He once accidentally didn't get off the train at York & went all the way to Edinburgh. He said he nearly froze to death when he got off.
@joannaccherry
@JolyonMaugham
Excuse me if this a stupid question, but isn't this a huge hole down which the last dregs of our Parliamentary democracy might just disappear?
@HenriettaMk
@KeeleyMP
Their families will never experience this. Their plan is to pretend they're not letting this happen, until they can finally say "the NHS isn't working, so let's have everyone (who can afford it) buy insurance." i.e. the US model. Do medical staff not get this by now?
"None of her many very unlikable predecessors came close to her achievement, and none of her descendants are likely to repeat it." Britain, unanchored.
#HMTheQueen
I think the man on
#Newsnight
just told Emily Maitlis it 'makes sense' for people living in blocks under 17m to pay for remedial works because they are "less likely" to die in a fire!
#CladdingScandal
#GrenfellTower
@Chris_Boardman
Also note: no-one is wearing a helmet, or lycra. This is commuting, not "cycling". This is just the best way for people get around, not a political statement. I want that.
Can't stop playing new
@stileantico
CD, absolutely stunning, esp for me the
#Byrd
,
#white
and
@WatkinsHuw
. Particularly recommended if you are feeling like an exile in your own country.
@Oohgpwales
@fascinatorfun
Didn't you know? It's so nurses can show off their lipstick. (Sorry to be flippant & wish yr OH full recovery. Just cannot compute that
@NHSEngland
removed mask requirement, & it seems employs clinical staff who are anti science.)
@soniasodha
I have just "un - supported"
@EveryDoctorUK
- the views of their chief fundraiser make it clear they're another fully "captured" part of the NHS
@EmmaDixon_EU
Go to Ikea online first. Open online account, elect local store. Choose items, add to online "shopping list" which shows location of items in store, & print. At store go straight to indicated aisles on list, then to till. Meat balls optional.
Good. But 100s of civil servants across multiple Govt departments will have spent pointless hours & wasted much public £ preparing for this lunacy, while being called " lazy unelected Remainer blob" etc.