VAT...simplified! Customs and stamp duty advice in plain simplified language. Columnist @AccountingWebUK My tweets are my own views #awesomeindirecttax #VAT
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Why is this not the biggest story in the UK right now?
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Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.
This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.
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One for you @UKLabour and @RachelReevesMP. These duty bands are unworkable. And they won’t generate any more revenue. Just “Brexit benefit” red tape. Is the @BBCr4today programme aware of this? Lots of stuff about farmers. Nothing about the wine and hospitality businesses.
Sunak’s wine legacy.
The highest rates of duty on wine in Europe, with 64 bands of duty (to replace just 2!) from 1 Feb 2025.
Will the next government do the right thing - it’s a simple move - and help businesses and consumers?
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In May this year, @LordPeterHendy pressured my now-former employer @SYSTRA_UKIRL to sack me by threatening them.
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
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Is the UK government at risk of losing £100 million plus in compensation to a family who made hundreds of millions from Covid?
How much did the brethren Hales family make from Covid?
My latest article on Open & Candid
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There are just THREE days left to submit your entry! ⌛
It's so important to enter #AE24 to ensure your story is seen and recognised by the best of the accounting profession 💙
Enter now: ow.ly/SgVo50RgTVW
#accountants #bookkeepers #accountingawards #awards
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VAT avoidance reaches new heights as automatic but opt-outable 15% added restaurant’s bills bit.ly/3U8CeV2 Because it is not compulsory but a voluntary payment no VAT is charged on it. If it was just added to each price it would be VATable
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We're excited to present the Spring Edition of the Tax Round, featuring the latest tax updates, including highlights from the Spring Budget and the Year End Planning Guide. We've also included other tax updates as well as important dates. Read more.
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Current tariff on soy sauce entering the UK from Japan - 0%. Tariff on soy sauce entering UK after UK-Japan trade deal - 0%.
Not a good look when you can't trust a government social media account to tell the truth.
The bakers used a lot of soya sauce in the first challenge on #GBBO, so it's a good thing it will be made cheaper thanks to our trade deal with Japan 🇯🇵
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In celebration of World Mental Health Day we caught up with some of our management team, to find out why mental health is important to them and what steps they take to look after their mental health at work.
#WorldMentalHealthDay; #WMHD2023 #Wellbeing #wellbeingatwork
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Our new report: possibly the Worst Tax Avoidance Scheme Ever.
It's a scheme for buy-to-let landlords from an outfit called Property118.
The sales pitch: save £k in taxes. The likely reality: costs £££k in additional tax and defaults the mortgage.
A 🧵:
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A VAT fraudster has been sentenced after ignoring a chance to come clean. Read the full story 👇
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The Accounting Excellence 2023 Shortlist has officially been revealed! 🏆 #AE23
Congratulations to all of our 2023 finalists, and a big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter - you are all winners in our eyes!
View the shortlist here: ow.ly/K42Z50P3TAb
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I am relieved and delighted to announce that having reviewed the significant evidence, Surrey police have decided to withdraw their application for a stalking protection order against me. 🎉🥳🍾
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Our new investigation: the fintech company secretly enabling a £46m tax avoidance scheme.
Article here, and quick thread below (but warning, it gets nerdy quite fast).
taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/06/22/…
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New: A senior Post Office lawyer celebrated putting Seema Misra in jail while she was pregnant in 2010.
🚩 Jamail Singh told execs they had "destroyed the attack on the Horizon system", according to an email shown to the inquiry.
🚩 Seema tells me: "They cannot be human."
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You did sell it for £100. Here's the Land Registry proof. We also reported the income that the public sector keeps (worth about 18% of what 90%-private-owned Teesworks Ltd gets). Maybe your press office will now answer questions (having refused to before and since the piece).
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Tom Seymour conducts PwC’s cluster-fiasco.
This piece is so good because it gets to the heart of every state/corporate scandal.
The execs/civil servants involved never, ever give two hoots about victims or accountability. It’s all about reputation. afr.com/rear-window/tom-seym…