2009/10/16 Bruce Napier [email protected] > > > I suspect you were being ironic, but we do keep records, using > Sheila's cunning spreadsheet (downloadable from www.nbsanity.me.uk), > as our declarations are usually either 20 or 30% so we need to be able > to justify that if challenged. >
With respect, I don't think people have got this yet. Unless there is any suggestion of widescale organised fraud there will be no challenge. The government is not interested in this tax. The government has already announced to Europe that this tax is too expensive to collect which means it it is too expensive to police as well. Consider the following: 1. the government has provided no standard forms for boatyards to record details they are asked to keep 2. Boatyards, amazingly, have as yet not been informed of any procedure to collect revenue from this tax. When did you last hear that of a government? That it had made no arrangements for collecting revenue? They are not interested in this tax. They do not want to enforce it. They are at last learning to do what the French do with regard to these matters which is to pay lip service to the principle and go their own way in practice. For this I applaud them. You're all being too English about this and is costing you dear. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
