On 2008-07-21 19:24:15 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 08:18:49 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Owain wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
ARWadworth wrote:
Brilliant. I suppose if I do not wear it covert I can just stick
the company name on the back.
Then it becomes PPE for the business & you can claim it against tax
:-)

And PPE would be zero rated for VAT as well?

I'm not registered, but I think it is.

It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.

On 2008-07-21 19:25:34 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:


That depends on what one considers to be a lot.

Dave will comment, I'm sure, but I would expect a handyman business to
be more time than materials intensive in terms of cost and what is
invoiced to the customer.

At the current level of around £65k at which registration is
mandatory, the recoverable VAT would be predominantly on materials
purchased and on fuel plus a few other small bits and pieces.. On
the output side, he will have increased his prices by 17.5% for no
good reason.

Nail, hit, head.

It would be interesting to work out what your revenue would have to be
to compensate this and make it worth registration. That would be
difficult, because it's hard to work out what the lost business would
be at a higher price point.

I suspect what can be made by one person working on their own in this
work would not go all that much higher anyway, although I guess that if
it could, one could always have two limited companies and put some
revenue through each.

Andy Hall wrote:

I suspect what can be made by one person working on their own in this
work would not go all that much higher anyway, although I guess that if
it could, one could always have two limited companies and put some
revenue through each.

HMRC have powers to "look through" arrangements of that type and simply
treat both businesses as one for the point of view of VAT...




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John.

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Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 19:24:15 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 08:18:49 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Owain wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
ARWadworth wrote:
Brilliant. I suppose if I do not wear it covert I can just stick
the company name on the back.
Then it becomes PPE for the business & you can claim it against
tax :-)

And PPE would be zero rated for VAT as well?

I'm not registered, but I think it is.

It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.

Have you been sniffing something?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 2008-07-21 20:20:11 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 19:24:15 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 08:18:49 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Owain wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
ARWadworth wrote:
Brilliant. I suppose if I do not wear it covert I can just stick
the company name on the back.
Then it becomes PPE for the business & you can claim it against
tax :-)

And PPE would be zero rated for VAT as well?

I'm not registered, but I think it is.

It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.

Have you been sniffing something?

Nah..

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:32:07 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

On 2008-07-21 20:20:11 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 19:24:15 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:


It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.

Have you been sniffing something?

Nah..

Maybe you need to...

On 2008-07-21 20:44:49 +0100, PCPaul said:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:32:07 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

On 2008-07-21 20:20:11 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-21 19:24:15 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:


It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.

Have you been sniffing something?

Nah..

Maybe you need to...

Evostik? That's the stuff. A good old belt of Xylene never hurt anyone.

Andy Hall wrote in message news:4884d72d@qaanaaq...

It would be worth it for those trips to Rye.

???

One of the most dangerous places. Old ladies pouring out of tea
shoppes fully armed with knitting needles.


Wrong County
Thankfully it's a bit too far south for the average Medway delinquent.
Lots of bikers on a Sunday morning fish and chip raid though


-

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home"
saying something like:

Oh, I see. So it's all right for you to kill someone, but I can't speed?

There are legal circumstances where you can kill someone, the same as there
are circumstances where a driver can speed.
You obviously don't understand when they are so you aren't capable.

Right, Dennis.. I forgot, you're Special Forces.
****, the only Special Force you use is when you're on the bog.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

Vortex3 wrote:
"ARWadworth" wrote in message
om...
Not quite DIY but does anyone know of a better price than £300 for a
covert level IIA stab proof vest.

Adam

Doesn't answer your questiion but a few years ago you could buy chain
mail clothes from www.kinel.co.uk.

The company appears to have disappeared, but not before their web
site was archived by the "wayback machine".

I have no idea whether they were stab proof, but the site was
interesting anyhow ;-) : http://tinyurl.com/6buws7 (very slow)

Make your own judgement.

Vortex3

That tinyurl link woke me up - even through the 'fug' of some rather hefty
painkillers strong enough to put a horse to sleep. LOL

Tanner-'op

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home"
saying something like:

Oh, I see. So it's all right for you to kill someone, but I can't speed?

There are legal circumstances where you can kill someone, the same as
there
are circumstances where a driver can speed.
You obviously don't understand when they are so you aren't capable.

Right, Dennis.. I forgot, you're Special Forces.

I am not special forces and never have been, why are you running them down
by suggesting that I am?
I hope you don't annoy one of them.