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eBay seller? Private tutor? The taxman cometh....
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If I understand you post correctly, you seem to have a real problem with huge corporations doing what they can to avoid paying tax. And your reaction to this is to behave in the same way and knowingly use companies or individuals that do what they can to avoid paying tax. Isn't this slightly hypocritical?
Undoubtedly so but it also shows a measure of angst that there is in society.
There are no doubt very good economic and political reasons for not pursuing Vodafone, for example, but Janet & John get little or no latitude with HMRC always wanting to be in driving seat.
It is interesting now that VAT is 20%, and it becomes easy to calculate, that it also becomes much more noticable.
I have also had cause to use a couple of local suppliers who used to quote an inclusive cost(which included VAT on invoice) who are now being very clear in sating the VAT to be charged, purposely, upfront."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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