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I certainly wouldn't want to be paying 31% income tax.

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Thyme is one of those herbs that I find a bit too dose sensitive.
If I use just a little too much minx complains of a "burnt" taste.

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Don't forget, these were 'accusations' and not proven.
The Americans would say/do anything to force an extradition.

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There are many many 'small' small businesses who employ small numbers of staff but who don't have the legal structure of a limited company.
And yet the small business could operate as a limited company so isn't this the choice of the 'Small Business'?
Where the business doesn't have 'shareholders' as such, why is it necessary to have the structure of a Limited Liability company?
Because the tax rates might be lower ?

As 'sole traders' or in 'partnerships' these small businesses are often taxed out of existence by paying Class 4 NIC'S on their profits but get no social benefits back by doing so. No sick pay, nothing. They still pay their normal NIC contributions though.
On this I'm not sure, but I did think that your could claim either SSP, or SMP accordingly. At a rate of either 9% or 2% the payments seem to be quite a lot lower than the Class 1 NIC's (totaling both employee and employer contributions).

No
I guess that is why the amounts are lower than Class 1 contributions?

They also provide local employment contributing to both the local and national economy in the business taxes they pay and employers NIC.
The business taxes being on the profits which aren't either paid as salary, or invested in the business.
Again, no. Business taxes - the so called NDR are collected locally and passed to the Exchequer and then a proportion paid back in relief to the Local Authority. They have no basis on the amount of profit made.
I used the term Business taxes for Corporation Tax, I haven't heard of NDR is that the rates?
Oh, and don't forget the accounting for VAT and employee PAYE/NIC's as an unpaid tax collector with heavy and punitive penalties for getting it wrong.
After that, there is 'go getting' new business....
Foregoing holidays for years on end....
And sometimes, you might even get to sleep at night.
That it essentially the difference between a bloody hard working employee and a small business owner (who generally are also bloody hard working!)
These last points being the main differences between being an owner of a small business, and an employee. If you choose to work as a hard working (*1) small business owner rather than as a hard working employee why whinge about it afterwards? Life is about personal responsibility if this was the wrong choice for you why would you expect sympathy?
(*1) The phrase above 'a bloody hard working person or small business' should probably have had a comma i.e. 'a bloody hard working, person or small business'. I had not intended to imply that a small business (or indeed the owner) wasn't also hard working.
The bottom line being nobody really likes either doing accounts or paying tax.

As a business owner, you don't have a choice but to 'do the accounts' and who said anything about whinging?
Forgoing holidays, not sleeping .... looks like whinging to me?

Oh yes, almost forgot. And if you do survive all that and retire to live out your days calmly in rural France, you get all sorts of shit from all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons who think you have only got here because you have exploited your fellow man and that you should taken out in front of your family and shot
Did you exploit your fellow man your denials suggest to me that you feel that you may have?
Oh, please....
That was a chain jerk ... sorry .... nice response

And not to forget those who think that the meagre benefits you actually are entitled to should be withdrawn because you no longer live in the UK.
No questions on that one
By which you mean.....
My attitude is that those people who pay in should at least get something out in the end, having also contributed to the vast numbers as don't, even if they happen to have gone all Francophile
I hope that helps your understanding Robert.
To some extent

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Don't forget, these were 'accusations' and not proven.
The Americans would say/do anything to force an extradition.

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Don't forget, these were 'accusations' and not proven.
The Americans would say/do anything to force an extradition.

Quote by GnV
There are many many 'small' small businesses who employ small numbers of staff but who don't have the legal structure of a limited company.
And yet the small business could operate as a limited company so isn't this the choice of the 'Small Business'?
As 'sole traders' or in 'partnerships' these small businesses are often taxed out of existence by paying Class 4 NIC'S on their profits but get no social benefits back by doing so. No sick pay, nothing. They still pay their normal NIC contributions though.
On this I'm not sure, but I did think that your could claim either SSP, or SMP accordingly. At a rate of either 9% or 2% the payments seem to be quite a lot lower than the Class 1 NIC's (totaling both employee and employer contributions).

They also provide local employment contributing to both the local and national economy in the business taxes they pay and employers NIC.
The business taxes being on the profits which aren't either paid as salary, or invested in the business.
Oh, and don't forget the accounting for VAT and employee PAYE/NIC's as an unpaid tax collector with heavy and punitive penalties for getting it wrong.
After that, there is 'go getting' new business....
Foregoing holidays for years on end....
And sometimes, you might even get to sleep at night.
That it essentially the difference between a bloody hard working employee and a small business owner (who generally are also bloody hard working!)
These last points being the main differences between being an owner of a small business, and an employee. If you choose to work as a hard working (*1) small business owner rather than as a hard working employee why whinge about it afterwards? Life is about personal responsibility if this was the wrong choice for you why would you expect sympathy?
(*1) The phrase above 'a bloody hard working person or small business' should probably have had a comma i.e. 'a bloody hard working, person or small business'. I had not intended to imply that a small business (or indeed the owner) wasn't also hard working.
The bottom line being nobody really likes either doing accounts or paying tax.

Oh yes, almost forgot. And if you do survive all that and retire to live out your days calmly in rural France, you get all sorts of shit from all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons who think you have only got here because you have exploited your fellow man and that you should taken out in front of your family and shot
Did you exploit your fellow man your denials suggest to me that you feel that you may have?
And not to forget those who think that the meagre benefits you actually are entitled to should be withdrawn because you no longer live in the UK.
No questions on that one
I hope that helps your understanding Robert.
To some extent

4. Once the computers were accessible by Mr McKinnon, he deleted data including:
(1) Critical operating system files from nine computers, the deletion of which shut down the entire US Army's Military District of Washington network of over 2000 computers for 24 hours, significantly disrupting Governmental functions
(2) 2,455 user accounts on a US Army computer that controlled access to an Army computer network, causing those computers to reboot and become inoperable
(3) Critical Operating system files and logs from computers at US Naval Weapons Station Earle, one of which was used for monitoring the identity, location, physical condition, staffing and battle readiness of Navy ships. Deletion of these files rendered the Base's entire network of over 300 computers inoperable at a critical time immediately following 11 September 2001 and thereafter left the network vulnerable to other intruders .

34. ..... At the same time he has tended to overlook the fact that, if prosecuted and convicted, the equivalent domestic offences include the offence under section 12 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment.

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Of course it is, so why do you then say the religious beliefs, cultural needs, sexual orientation and views of the children are of no importance ? how can you be supportive when you are actively against what the child is, a homophobic fostering a gay child is not right, a Muslim Arab fostering a Jew, a Jew fostering a Muslim Arab how can this be a loving and supportive environment, would it be safe ?