In the UK we have a simple system for normal employees called PAYE (pay as you earn). Basically the govt tells my employer what my tax code is and the employer sends part of my pay to the inland revenue every month before sending the rest to me.
Some things are tax deductible, like pension contributions, but as i'm in the employer's pension plan that's all calculated by them.
we do charitable contributions differently. Basically the charity gets to claim the tax not you, so if you donate money to a charity, you tick a box on a form and they get to ask the revenue for the tax you paid on that money.
that's all for normal employees. If you're self employed or have multiple income streams for several jobs, then you gotta do a tax return, which allows you to deduct some things.
my wife was a locum GP (she recently became salaried (i.e. directly employed)) and she got to claim mileage and depreciation on her car plus other things as well (her insurance was a big one). I felt sorry for her accountant given how bad she was at book keeping:)
funny thing is the the US govt spends more on health in terms of % of GDP than the UK does and the UK has a full national health service free at the point of (ab)use (my wife is a GP in the NHS so i hear the stories).
Companies don't pay VAT. They may collect it on behalf of the Revenue if they are selling direct to consumers but they don't pay VAT on thier transactions (or if they do then they get to reclaim it).
years (2005 ish) ago i worked on a system using Windows XP Embedded and you could set up the system to do this. writes would go to RAM and be discarded on reboot.
space is one of those areas where the "we need it ready by X!" actually applies tho. they usually have a very tight launch window and missing it means delays measured in years.
It's not like the normal software release scheduling governed by trade shows, salesmen selling shit that doesnt exist yet or the normal "we have to ship so we can book revenue for this quater!".
From all i've heard tho in this case it does seem to be "blame the software until we find the root cause", which i think any software dev is familiar with.
dont be a fuckwit. the ScotsNats may try to force another referendum but that's still not a given. Northern Ireland will never leave the UK until there is a majority catholic population, and even then I'd suspect a small but significant minority of them would vote to stay in the UK, And Gib will never drop the UK since it would pretty much allow spain to dominate them with no recourse.
One of the problems I see is that the current government, which was also elected by the voters, is(was?) against the exit.
Meanwhile the brexit vote barely got a yes.
True, but don't forget part of the reason they were elected was because they promised the referendum in their manifesto. They were the only party to say the British people should be directly asked the question and that undoubtedly led to them getting as many votes as they did.
The thing that annoys me about the remainers who are not whinging about the vote is that none of them made the case for the EU during the campaign. Their only arguments were the Brexageddon that would ensue, that if you wanted to leave because of immigration then you were a racist and fuck Nigel Farage.
Perhaps if they'd made a positive case the would have persuaded more wavering voters to their side. Of course it's equally possible that there is no positive case to be made for the EU and it's "Ever Closer Union"(tm).
Authors note: I decided in the end not to vote. I was leaning to vote out but open to voting remain when the campaigning started but both campaigns turned me off so much that for the first time in my life I decided not to vote.
dont forget bojo was humming an ha-ing about which side to join when the renegotiations went so well.
one of the things he said was that an out vote meant we could renegotiate a better deal then vote again.
The situation here hasnt changed that much tho. If there were a referendum for a united ireland tomorrow the vote would still fall fairly neatly down the old tribal lines. I don't think there are many protestants that would vote for it. It may have affected the catholic vote that would have voted against the united ireland, believing they had the best of both worlds, but i've never seen any data on the % of catholics that would vote against a united ireland so it's hard to quantify...
But no-one has told me yet who's going to pay the £9 billion quid that the north gets from the UK government over and above the tax income.
In short the south can't afford a united ireland unless it's bank rolled by the EU, and if we do end up leaving the EU then they'll be £8.5 billion quid in the red already.
Same problem with the scots, tho they can fuck off for all I care. Especially if it stops them winging on.
In 2015 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was £4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about £8.5 billion.
Each year the UK gets an instant discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth almost £5 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £18 billion in contributions.
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In the UK we have a simple system for normal employees called PAYE (pay as you earn). Basically the govt tells my employer what my tax code is and the employer sends part of my pay to the inland revenue every month before sending the rest to me. :)
Some things are tax deductible, like pension contributions, but as i'm in the employer's pension plan that's all calculated by them.
we do charitable contributions differently. Basically the charity gets to claim the tax not you, so if you donate money to a charity, you tick a box on a form and they get to ask the revenue for the tax you paid on that money.
that's all for normal employees. If you're self employed or have multiple income streams for several jobs, then you gotta do a tax return, which allows you to deduct some things.
my wife was a locum GP (she recently became salaried (i.e. directly employed)) and she got to claim mileage and depreciation on her car plus other things as well (her insurance was a big one). I felt sorry for her accountant given how bad she was at book keeping
funny thing is the the US govt spends more on health in terms of % of GDP than the UK does and the UK has a full national health service free at the point of (ab)use (my wife is a GP in the NHS so i hear the stories).
Companies don't pay VAT. They may collect it on behalf of the Revenue if they are selling direct to consumers but they don't pay VAT on thier transactions (or if they do then they get to reclaim it).
surely it was a russian impersonating a republican operative impersonating a democrat
years (2005 ish) ago i worked on a system using Windows XP Embedded and you could set up the system to do this. writes would go to RAM and be discarded on reboot.
dont forget BigClive
i have some shares in a nifty little start up call The South Sea Company if you're interested
you've never bought you kids some shoes that "dont match any of their clothes you idiot" then?
that's because you can't batter it and deep fry it.
the 40% tax kicks in at 44k-ish not 33k, you're forgetting about the 11k tax free threshold below which you don't pay any income tax.
there's only one reason. waterproofing. other than that there's no reason i can think of..
Anglican Jihad: the local vicar calls round for a cup of tea and a chat. And if you insist, a nice slice of the Victoria sponge.
well to be fair it was the III.Vmm audio jack in those days...
why spend your own money when you can spend someone else's?
It's nice enough in summer,
Both days were nice this year i hear.
space is one of those areas where the "we need it ready by X!" actually applies tho. they usually have a very tight launch window and missing it means delays measured in years.
It's not like the normal software release scheduling governed by trade shows, salesmen selling shit that doesnt exist yet or the normal "we have to ship so we can book revenue for this quater!".
From all i've heard tho in this case it does seem to be "blame the software until we find the root cause", which i think any software dev is familiar with.
dont be a fuckwit. the ScotsNats may try to force another referendum but that's still not a given. Northern Ireland will never leave the UK until there is a majority catholic population, and even then I'd suspect a small but significant minority of them would vote to stay in the UK, And Gib will never drop the UK since it would pretty much allow spain to dominate them with no recourse.
One of the problems I see is that the current government, which was also elected by the voters, is(was?) against the exit. Meanwhile the brexit vote barely got a yes.
True, but don't forget part of the reason they were elected was because they promised the referendum in their manifesto. They were the only party to say the British people should be directly asked the question and that undoubtedly led to them getting as many votes as they did.
The thing that annoys me about the remainers who are not whinging about the vote is that none of them made the case for the EU during the campaign. Their only arguments were the Brexageddon that would ensue, that if you wanted to leave because of immigration then you were a racist and fuck Nigel Farage.
Perhaps if they'd made a positive case the would have persuaded more wavering voters to their side. Of course it's equally possible that there is no positive case to be made for the EU and it's "Ever Closer Union"(tm).
Authors note: I decided in the end not to vote. I was leaning to vote out but open to voting remain when the campaigning started but both campaigns turned me off so much that for the first time in my life I decided not to vote.
you shouldnt let your phone drink whiskey.
we imported £23.9 billion more from the EU than we exported to it in the first quarter of this year alone. go us.
wouldnt she be queen Elizabeth I of canada. unless you had another one and didnt tell us...
dont forget bojo was humming an ha-ing about which side to join when the renegotiations went so well.
one of the things he said was that an out vote meant we could renegotiate a better deal then vote again.
we pay 8.5 billion net.
The situation here hasnt changed that much tho. If there were a referendum for a united ireland tomorrow the vote would still fall fairly neatly down the old tribal lines. I don't think there are many protestants that would vote for it. It may have affected the catholic vote that would have voted against the united ireland, believing they had the best of both worlds, but i've never seen any data on the % of catholics that would vote against a united ireland so it's hard to quantify...
But no-one has told me yet who's going to pay the £9 billion quid that the north gets from the UK government over and above the tax income.
In short the south can't afford a united ireland unless it's bank rolled by the EU, and if we do end up leaving the EU then they'll be £8.5 billion quid in the red already.
Same problem with the scots, tho they can fuck off for all I care. Especially if it stops them winging on.
In 2015 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was £4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about £8.5 billion.
Each year the UK gets an instant discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth almost £5 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £18 billion in contributions.