Everyone looking forward to tomorrow?

Thrugelmir

sss555s wrote: »

fc. The vat wont hit your profits directly as you must be vat reg, so why not do your little bit of cutting back by keeping your price the same and swallowing the expected 1% vat rise and keeping your turnover up.

I learned that from Maggie Thatcher :rotfl:

A falling pound is double edged though. As if VAT rises the cost of importing the product both in cost and tax rises. VAT is paid on top of the total of product cost, shipping and import duty.

By VAT registering even below the limit all input tax is recoverable.

Why 1% rise? 2.5% would still leave the UK below the level of the majority of Europe.

nickmason

JanCee wrote: »

No and I'd rather not say where I do live, but both Tories and Lib-Dems have claimed that it is a straight fight between them and Labour, and they couldn't both be right.

For anyone trying to - at the 11th hour - get an idea of the real landscape, your best resources are probably:

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk - although note that this is getting slightly distorted by the LD bounce, which most polling is showing to be stronger in the north than the south, but which has been applied uniformly.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk - good for commentary

and betfair which will show if there's any money following local knowledge (although watch out for big buy/sell spreads that might hide longer "real" odds)

carolt

wageslave wrote: »

I have pretended I had an option this whole campaign.

I hate everything they have done. My heart turns thinking about the mess this country is in.

I will vote labour and God help me if I get what I am asking for.

I can only pray for a hung parliament

I don't ge it, ws.

Why vote Labour, then?

fc123

A change could be good just for the sake of it too...lot's of eager new fresh MP's, an ambitious new PM and so on.

I like change ...also it shakes things up a bit for the better sometimes.

sss555s

Thrugelmir wrote: »

A falling pound is double edged though. As if VAT rises the cost of importing the product both in cost and tax rises. VAT is paid on top of the total of product cost, shipping and import duty.

By VAT registering even below the limit all input tax is recoverable.

Why 1% rise? 2.5% would still leave the UK below the level of the majority of Europe.

Is the £ still falling though Thrug?

The bit in red was the point we were making.

And i agree with you on the rate.

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

A change could be good just for the sake of it too...lot's of eager new fresh MP's, an ambitious new PM and so on.

I like change ...also it shakes things up a bit for the better sometimes.

I agree fc. Don't like the options much myself but we know what we have now and it ain't gonna improve with age.

Can only hope that change might give us something to renew hope and that they might, just, have learnt something from the terrible failures dished out to us over the past few years.

lostinrates

Actually, despite feeling that a decisive quick acting government is a real plus...I can't help thinking it would be interesting to see a coalition in play as it were.

what I love, regardless of outcome, is how into it people seem. I remeber saying when this started how the buzz was in the air before Blair came in...young people were interested, and the lack of interest in the young people I was chatting to this time was utterly depressing. Now I feel different: although many are board there is also a slight...frisson in the air and I find that exciting and invigorating and I think its good for people.

fc123

sss555s wrote: »

Is the £ still falling though Thrug?

The bit in red was the point we were making.

And i agree with you on the rate.

VAT increase is not so bad on the whole, speaking personally but I wish they would het rid of the limit and make it compulsory for everyone who trades to register. Unfortunately (for VAT reasons only) we will T/O 7 figs this year so far far away from the 68k (?) cut off .....but hoping to really push the export as have loads of enquiries but not enough production at the mo to make the most of it......

No doubt, I will get the extra production sorted by July/August, build up the cashflow adain (as we work forward not 30 days behind), get extra margin and.....whooosh.....then go out of fashion and have to develop a whole new look all over again. :rotfl:

Nikkster

I'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow - it's my birthday

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, despite feeling that a decisive quick acting government is a real plus...I can't help thinking it would be interesting to see a coalition in play as it were.

what I love, regardless of outcome, is how into it people seem. I remeber saying when this started how the buzz was in the air before Blair came in...young people were interested, and the lack of interest in the young people I was chatting to this time was utterly depressing. Now I feel different: although many are board there is also a slight...frisson in the air and I find that exciting and invigorating and I think its good for people.

Tonight is the first time I have felt 'excited' about it too.....and I am looking forward to tomorrow now.
Hadn't really been able to give it much headspace until this evening.

Son is all het up about it which is a good thing but I am not sure about his cousins on OH side.