sorry, I seem not to have received the original mail in this thread can anyone send me the original, plus any links, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
ta Ian W ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] FW: Newsflash - IR35 to be abolished in April and replaced by IR591 > Political but true- same reason I have minimum wage. They'll probably do > one of their online consultations for lipspeak, we'll all complain, then > they'll ignore it. Power to the democratizing impact of the interweb! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Taz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 January 2004 10:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] FW: Newsflash - IR35 to be abolished in April > and replaced by IR591 > > > > I591 is going to catch "any company with less that 5 directors" and I > > suppose that means the corner paper shop too (IANAA). > > Any limited company though, so sole traders will still be using self > assessment. > > I don't mind paying some Tax through dividends, but hopefully the Inland > Revenue understand that some of us don't always pay ourselves this way > (minimum wage + dividends) just to reap the tax benefits. One of the > main > reasons I do this is because my business can sometimes go for 2 or 3 > months > without seeing any income, mainly due (fingers crossed) to long projects > that get invoiced when the work is completed. Therefore it would be > impossible to pay myself a set salary on a monthly basis because it > might > not be in the bank. > > As I said, I don't mind paying Tax on dividends, as long as they don't > over > tax low-income companies to the point that it becomes impossible to run. > The > government increasingly seem to be all too happy to make us, the small > businesses, pay more to make up for the fact that they can't get the > money > out of the fat cats (with their offshore bank accounts and tax havens). > It > is quite common for the Revenue to get tough with somebody who's having > trouble paying the bills, but if somebody owes them a couple of > million... > "ah well, let it go!". > > You have to wonder why a so-called "Labour" government keep trying to > make > the rich richer, and the rest of us poorer. Let's hope they get this one > right. > > Taz > (Ooh, was that a political rant?) > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
