From: MasonS on
On 11 Dec, 17:11, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

> You and logic, strangers forever, eh?

Yes, it beggars belief that my employers have paid me for the last 27
years to work in their Chemistry labs when I cannot grasp basic
scientific logic. They must surely rumble me sooner or later!
--
Simon Mason
From: MasonS on
On 11 Dec, 20:31, "The Medway Handyman"
<davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Mas...(a)BP.com wrote:
> > On 11 Dec, 01:06, JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
> >> Mas...(a)BP.com wrote:
> >>> On 10 Dec, 18:33, JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> I don't care if it is a cheque or cash, it all comes out of my
> >>>>> bank in the long run. If they fiddle their tax returns it's on
> >>>>> their conscience, not mine.
> >>>> So you always insist on a serialised receipt?- Hide quoted text -
>
> >>>> - Show quoted text -
>
> >>> No - once I agree a price and pay up - that's the end of it as far
> >>> as I'm concerned. A serialised receipt is no use...
>
> >> ...to you.
>
> >> But insisting on it is very helpful to HMRC and your fellow
> >> taxpayers..
>
> >> But that's apparently not your concern.
>
> > Don't be so ridiculous. The TRADER is responsible for HIS tax returns,
> > not me.
>
> Should HMRC choose to investigate and find dodgy dealings, they will
> investigate the customer as well.  If the trader is judged guilty of evading
> tax and they suspect collusion they can (& have) prosecute both.
>
> --
> Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Since I have never had discount for cash, my conscience is clear.

--
Simon Mason
From: Peter Grange on
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:27:50 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
<davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Phil W Lee wrote:
>> Peter Grange <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> considered Thu, 10 Dec 2009
>> 19:36:18 +0000 the perfect time to write:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:16:40 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
>>> <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> mileburner wrote:
>>>>> MasonS(a)BP.com wrote:
>>>>>> I stand corrected, he just laughed at my car and clothes then, my
>>>>>> apologies.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is better to be laughed at for you car and clothes, than to be
>>>>> laughed at for your lack of ability to comprehend the tax system,
>>>>> your hypocrisy, you poor attitude to other road users and your vile
>>>>> postings.
>>>>
>>>> So, suggesting you pay your way counts as a 'vile' posting does it?
>>>
>>> "The only good cyclist is a dead cyclist" does.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I suppose it does. You are so adverse to putting your hands in
>>>> your pocket the very though must be vile.
>>>
>>> More bollocks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist
>>
>> Best to put it in the killfile I reckon.
>> It's impervious to reason or logic, and blind to any facts.
>>
>> I think it will make a good mate for the J troll, although I must
>> admit it worries me what they might produce.
>
>Resorting to insults again, because you can't justify being a sponging
>freeloader?

So, if someone suggests you don't pay all the taxes the government
requires that's libel, but according to you another person who does
pay all such taxes is a sponging freeloader.

--

Pete - The Tax Paying Driving Licence Owning Cyclist
From: Steve Firth on
Phil W Lee <phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

> "Mr Benn" <nospam(a)invalid.invalid> considered Fri, 11 Dec 2009
> 15:15:56 -0000 the perfect time to write:
> [snip]

> >That's strange. I had though that ethanol released CO2 when burnt.
> >
> That would be the same carbon that was captured from the atmosphere
> when the feedstock (wheat in this example) was grown.
> Unlike the case with fossil fuel, which is carbon that has been safely
> stored deep in the earth (and hence out of the atmosphere) for
> millions of years.

Cyclists. How do they manage to cycle any distance when they can't see
further than their own nose?
From: JNugent on
MasonS(a)BP.com wrote:
> On 11 Dec, 20:31, "The Medway Handyman"
> <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Mas...(a)BP.com wrote:
>>> On 11 Dec, 01:06, JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
>>>> Mas...(a)BP.com wrote:
>>>>> On 10 Dec, 18:33, JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I don't care if it is a cheque or cash, it all comes out of my
>>>>>>> bank in the long run. If they fiddle their tax returns it's on
>>>>>>> their conscience, not mine.
>>>>>> So you always insist on a serialised receipt?- Hide quoted text -
>>>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>>>> No - once I agree a price and pay up - that's the end of it as far
>>>>> as I'm concerned. A serialised receipt is no use...
>>>> ...to you.
>>>> But insisting on it is very helpful to HMRC and your fellow
>>>> taxpayers..
>>>> But that's apparently not your concern.
>>> Don't be so ridiculous. The TRADER is responsible for HIS tax returns,
>>> not me.
>> Should HMRC choose to investigate and find dodgy dealings, they will
>> investigate the customer as well. If the trader is judged guilty of evading
>> tax and they suspect collusion they can (& have) prosecute both.

>> Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist

> Since I have never had discount for cash, my conscience is clear.

As I had already pointed out to you before you wrote that, you simply *don't
need* to have been offered, nor to have receibved, a "discount for cash" in
order to have profited from a VAT evasion.

You must have let that slip from your memory.