Who worked Christmas Day ??

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I got caught with the 183 day rule...but luckily there was a tax clause which covered me in the contract...the contract even paid for a tax accountant to sort the mess out too (them were the days!).

A lot of people I know in the UK are simply doing part time at the moment...does sod all good for the economy of course but the alternative is moving into the punishing tax traps which isn't worth doing.

 

[Kayos]

I was on call but no calls came in, so I had to suffer the mother in law all day

 

[Robotstar5]

I think they are slowly starting to realise that quite a few folk have found a way out of the tax system they carefully crafted and designed to stitch folk up....they're simply not bothering to work anymore....or at least just moving to part time working instead of full time!

I need a "holding my hand up" smiley saying "me sir" HMRC even decided that as I had finished work halfway through a tax year they would send me a cheque for £1600

 

[The Artilleryman]

You need to be careful according to the BBC there trying to encourage old folk like us back into the work place to help fill the skills shortages.

Those of us who were lucky enough to escape early (in my case due to ill health) are very unlikely to go back to long hours **** pay and poor work/life ratio.

NOTE. I got out at 60 never claimed any benefits as I had a reasonable pension (LT bus driver).

 

[Morrisman]

I got caught with the 183 day rule...but luckily there was a tax clause which covered me in the contract...the contract even paid for a tax accountant to sort the mess out too (them were the days!).

I heard at some time that if you went over in one year you could ask HMRC to do the whole thing as a five year average. I never tried it out.

 

[addjunkie]

I need a "holding my hand up" smiley saying "me sir" HMRC even decided that as I had finished work halfway through a tax year they would send me a cheque for £1600

I was similar, but also was a tad lucky, as you can carry buisness losses after a start up back 3 years. Obviously my little farm / tourist business made big losses set back agaisnt my big working salary too!

 

[James1979]

I heard at some time that if you went over in one year you could ask HMRC to do the whole thing as a five year average. I never tried it out.

I think so. One year I did 9 months at sea and the next was a lot less.

At the time I used an normal account for my business and he just referred the marine stuff to a specialist woman in wales. That’s all she did and really knew her ****.

All the regs back to front.

 

[addjunkie]

I think so. One year I did 9 months at sea and the next was a lot less.

At the time I used an normal account for my business and he just referred the marine stuff to a specialist woman in wales. That’s all she did and really knew her ****.

All the regs back to front.

Most of the marine tax gurus are round Cardiff, as thats where the revenue marine stuff is delt with.

9 months is usually enough to make you realise that going to-sea is for fools and fish!

 

[Morrisman]

Most of the marine tax gurus are round Cardiff, as thats where the revenue marine stuff is delt with.

9 months is usually enough to make you realise that going to-sea is for fools and fish!

I started work offshore 8 weeks on, 4 off. After some years they got generous and it changed to 8 on, 8 off, but nobody liked that, so we ended up 5 on 5 off. For every day we worked we accrued a paid day off.