Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.
TIA.


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"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.
TIA.

Try subscribing to 'uk.legal'

Quite a friendly bunch, more than willing to help.
I'm sure someone there will either help or give pointers to relevant WWW's.

HNY

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:48:37 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with
some self employment tax issues.

Tried calling your Tax Office? They are a friendly lot and appreciate
that a) Tax is very complicated. b) The forms can be confusing if you
don't fully understand Tax Speak. c) Would rather everything was
correct to start with than waste time later sorting out a mistake.

As you are Self Employed it may be worth your while finding a Tax
Accountant, they'll know what things(*) you can claim, to what level,
without the Inland Revenue raising an eyebrow. Yes you'll pay a few
hundred quid for them to do your Tax Return but it's a business
expense and a good one will save you the remainder in tax...

(*) Things like use of home as office, ratio of private/business use
of your car etc, depreciation of capital assets, etc.

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Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
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uk.business.accountancy ?

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uk.business.accountancy ?

Got it bookmarked thanks.


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In article lgate.org,
Michael Mcneil wrote:
Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.

Don't even bother. Find a decent accountant. A *decent* one will save you
far more than the fees. If you're close to SW London, I can certainly
recommend one.

From bitter experience. I tried for a few years to deal with my own tax
affairs after going freelance - which is probably simpler than being self
employed in a trade etc as all I really supply is my services.
The IR did some form of investigation and decided I owed them a
considerable sum. If anything I reckoned I'd overpaid as I hadn't been
claiming for everything I could have.

Went to an accountant. Who put the fear of god into them. A good one can.
And I ended up with a refund slightly greater than the extra amount they
were asking for. He went back as far as he could and claimed all the right
allowances. And it cost me less than 10% of the amount he got refunded.

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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:48:37 +0000 (UTC), "Michael Mcneil"
wrote:

Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.
TIA.

Get yourself a Swiss Bank Account, easyjet only charge 40ish quid to
transport you to Zurich / Basel ...... If you can get to Zurich, you
don't even need to clear customs., UBS have a branch in the baggage
hall. And if you stay out the country enough nights, you become a tax
excile. You need 100K to open an account, unless you get a work
permit.

If it looks like drug money, even the swiss banks let your details
out, if you are worried about this choose Austria, where banking rules
are even stricter, but as its EU, its harder to do the Tax Excile
thing.

Or take the Swiss Persons approach, open your own bank, in
lichenstien, where there are 100's or banks for each person who lives
there. You can then negioatiate your Tax with the Swiss authorites.

Rick

Rick Dipper wrote:

Get yourself a Swiss Bank Account, easyjet only charge 40ish quid to
transport you to Zurich / Basel ...... If you can get to Zurich, you
don't even need to clear customs., UBS have a branch in the baggage
hall. And if you stay out the country enough nights, you become a tax
excile. You need 100K to open an account, unless you get a work
permit.

If it looks like drug money, even the swiss banks let your details
out, if you are worried about this choose Austria, where banking rules
are even stricter, but as its EU, its harder to do the Tax Excile
thing.

Or take the Swiss Persons approach, open your own bank, in
lichenstien, where there are 100's or banks for each person who lives
there. You can then negioatiate your Tax with the Swiss authorites.

Rick

LOL.
I take it you are speaking from experience then Rick?
Is the Interest rate good on a swiss acount?

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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:25:59 GMT, "Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk"
wrote:

Rick Dipper wrote:

Get yourself a Swiss Bank Account, easyjet only charge 40ish quid to
transport you to Zurich / Basel ...... If you can get to Zurich, you
don't even need to clear customs., UBS have a branch in the baggage
hall. And if you stay out the country enough nights, you become a tax
excile. You need 100K to open an account, unless you get a work
permit.

If it looks like drug money, even the swiss banks let your details
out, if you are worried about this choose Austria, where banking rules
are even stricter, but as its EU, its harder to do the Tax Excile
thing.

Or take the Swiss Persons approach, open your own bank, in
lichenstien, where there are 100's or banks for each person who lives
there. You can then negioatiate your Tax with the Swiss authorites.

Rick

LOL.
I take it you are speaking from experience then Rick?
Is the Interest rate good on a swiss acount?



Interest on a Swiss account is 0.4%, which is VERY good, with
inflation running at less than 0.1%. Who win/loose on the exchange
rates.


Rick

Michael Mcneil wrote:
Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.
TIA.

Not really advice with regards to your plight, but, one trick others
might consider, especially those Self employed types that need to stash
money for paying taxes is.... change (or re-mortgage) to an "offset"
mortgage which you can stash away as much money you like and not pay a
drop of tax. The interest earned is the same as the interest you are
paying on your mortgage, thus either reducing your monthly repayment or,
increasing the speed at which your mortgage is repaid.

i.e. you are getting savings from your investment at a good rate of
interest tax free!



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Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk wrote:

mortgage which you can stash away as much money you like and not pay a
drop of tax.

read "a drop of tax on interest"

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"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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Anyone got a link to an accountancy type forum. I want help with some
self employment tax issues.
TIA.


Sign up with http://www.shout99.com - they're predominantly interested in
the IT industry, but have broadened their interest since startup to cover
pretty much all of self-employment issues.

The main trio - Andy White, Susie Hughes and Kevin Miller - were
instrumental in setting up the PCG, but were unceremoniously ousted a couple
of years ago, in part due to offering competing tax investigation insurance
from shout99. I left the PCG in disgust (know Kevin from years ago & he's a
Good Guy).

There's an "ask an expert" forum there.

As others have said, though, if your tax affairs are anything other than
very simple, you really need a decent accountant in this day & age. Brown's
made our tax system hugely complex, and the onus is on you to understand the
lot of it & get it correct. No mercy is shown if you make mistakes - the
revenue rub their hands in glee at that point 'cos they see you as an extra
revenue stream via a myriad of penalties.



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