Bank holidays are a total irrelevance in modern life. If you are trying to keep bank holiday Monday as "special" then you are going to have as much success of those trying to keep Sundays "special." For many years the only thing that a bank holiday has meant to me, and I suspect many others, is too much traffic to bother venturing out.
Many of us are quite good at ignoring mobile phones and emails when it suits- many of course are not. Their problem not mine.
And I wonder if people who want to keep bank holidays or weekends special actually go out and use shops and other outlets staffed by people who clearly can't keep those days special.
I wish that they would be more transparent on pricing. All we can glean seems to be that it's £50 per month for up to 15 clients, and that it's well suited to teams of 100+. That suggests that it might be a premium price product.
I'm not looking for a free or cheap solution, but realistically I need to know what part of the market that the product is in. After all, there would be no point in test driving a Rolls Royce if your market is a Ford Mondeo, would there?
MTD is going to happen, so there is no point in whinging about it. It's like other changes introduced like self assessment and compulsory online filing.
It might be too rushed, but that's outside our control. The big issue is that we still don't know which clients are going to be affected, and frankly I think that it's disgraceful that HMRC haven't made their mind up on this. If clients have to change their record keeping, I want them to do it in April this year, so that we can iron out errors and training issues before the system goes live from 2018. I don't want to be scaring small clients and then find that HRMC actually makes a decision that they are excluded.
I've already identified those clients affected by the original proposals (unincorporated >£10K) and categorised them, using the same categories. I'll get in touch with anybody over the VAT threshold first, and consider the smaller ones in descending order of turnover.
I'll add another voice to express dismay that we still don't know the turnover threshold. Our plan is to convert included clients to bookkeeping software from April 2017, so that they have a full year to get used to it and iron out the glitches before MTD goes live. Most of them aren't going to like it at all - if they'd wanted to "go digital" they'd have done so by now and HMRC's contention that they'll save money through all of this is delusional.
It is a complete disgrace that months after the consultation closed they are still "thinking" about this. After all, not all responses would have come in on the last day and shocked them with the viewpoint that £10k is stupidly low
They die slowly, don't they, these old dinosaurs. I suspect they'll be living off their reserves of fat for quite a while yet.
Not to mention by bloodsucking. They tried to put my subscription up by 54% with nothing added except some rewards scheme for recommending their software (as if.)
Given that the Institute has disciplined members for "unprofessional correspondence" it did take me three paragraphs to convey what could have been done in two words.
Why the annual fascination with the number of returns submitted at Christmas? 10 million returns over 10 months works out at about 33,000 per day and obviously a higher daily rate at this time of year.
The next thing we'll be seeing is advice on how to fill in your self assessment, starting with the instruction to "gather together all the information before you start."
It's probably last year's article dredged up with the numbers changed a bit
If this wasn't a leap year today would be March 1st. That would mean that December 31st would fall on a Friday and you'd have to work it. As it happens, it falls on a Saturday because of the leap year and you probably don't have to work it.
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Bank holidays are a total irrelevance in modern life. If you are trying to keep bank holiday Monday as "special" then you are going to have as much success of those trying to keep Sundays "special." For many years the only thing that a bank holiday has meant to me, and I suspect many others, is too much traffic to bother venturing out.
Many of us are quite good at ignoring mobile phones and emails when it suits- many of course are not. Their problem not mine.
And I wonder if people who want to keep bank holidays or weekends special actually go out and use shops and other outlets staffed by people who clearly can't keep those days special.
The view from the grumpy side of life. :-)
"I am Marketing Director of DNS Accountants comes with a great experience and expertise in IT and Marketing related activities."
But zero expertise in tax, it would appear
I wish that they would be more transparent on pricing. All we can glean seems to be that it's £50 per month for up to 15 clients, and that it's well suited to teams of 100+. That suggests that it might be a premium price product.
I'm not looking for a free or cheap solution, but realistically I need to know what part of the market that the product is in. After all, there would be no point in test driving a Rolls Royce if your market is a Ford Mondeo, would there?
MTD is going to happen, so there is no point in whinging about it. It's like other changes introduced like self assessment and compulsory online filing.
It might be too rushed, but that's outside our control. The big issue is that we still don't know which clients are going to be affected, and frankly I think that it's disgraceful that HMRC haven't made their mind up on this. If clients have to change their record keeping, I want them to do it in April this year, so that we can iron out errors and training issues before the system goes live from 2018. I don't want to be scaring small clients and then find that HRMC actually makes a decision that they are excluded.
I've already identified those clients affected by the original proposals (unincorporated >£10K) and categorised them, using the same categories. I'll get in touch with anybody over the VAT threshold first, and consider the smaller ones in descending order of turnover.
I'll add another voice to express dismay that we still don't know the turnover threshold. Our plan is to convert included clients to bookkeeping software from April 2017, so that they have a full year to get used to it and iron out the glitches before MTD goes live. Most of them aren't going to like it at all - if they'd wanted to "go digital" they'd have done so by now and HMRC's contention that they'll save money through all of this is delusional.
It is a complete disgrace that months after the consultation closed they are still "thinking" about this. After all, not all responses would have come in on the last day and shocked them with the viewpoint that £10k is stupidly low
Not to mention by bloodsucking. They tried to put my subscription up by 54% with nothing added except some rewards scheme for recommending their software (as if.)
Given that the Institute has disciplined members for "unprofessional correspondence" it did take me three paragraphs to convey what could have been done in two words.
Why the annual fascination with the number of returns submitted at Christmas? 10 million returns over 10 months works out at about 33,000 per day and obviously a higher daily rate at this time of year.
The next thing we'll be seeing is advice on how to fill in your self assessment, starting with the instruction to "gather together all the information before you start."
It's probably last year's article dredged up with the numbers changed a bit
Bah humbug
Seems proud that they are answering calls in six minutes.
Says it all, doesn't it?
It just
a desperately irrelevant attempt to plug his product
Working an extra day
You are not working an extra day at all.
If this wasn't a leap year today would be March 1st. That would mean that December 31st would fall on a Friday and you'd have to work it. As it happens, it falls on a Saturday because of the leap year and you probably don't have to work it.