"dickbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: Canon EOS 1Ds Price > > Lets talk real life on professional prices shall we...... > > If a pro is worth anything then that individual must surely be trading at a > profit i.e. annual income = X+, annual expenditure =X. > > On that basis then every year the old accountant man will present the pro > with a tax assesment based upon the last years income/expenditure account. > > Assuming a taxable profit is there before the revenue see it, the accountant > will extract an allowance for capital expenditure which means that over a > period a pro pays less in tax and some in purchase charges, one wiping out > the other which means that over a period the pro pays less tax and uses what > would have been tax to purchase capital equipment. What this ends up as is > free equipment. > > Under such a set of conditions the cost of a digital camera spread over 3-5 > years is offset by tax allowances so the pro pays nothing for the gear in > the end. >
Dickbo, I assume from your email address that you are based in the UK. That's good because I cannot speak for other countries. What you write is, I'm afraid to say, complete crap and would only be true if the tax rate in the UK was 100%. It isn't and the 1Ds will only be free to working pros if Canon were to sell them for �zero. Ian Watts. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
