Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gaza on November 25, 2006, 11:28:21 am
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JUST GOING on a all day bender,just wonderered if I could claim back tax for a bonding meeting trouble is I M A SOLE TRADER.
GAZA [TONGUE IN CHEEK]
LOOKING FORWARD TO MY XMAS PARTY ;D
HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE YOU FIRMS DUE ?
ME a paccket of ccrisps bag of peanuts and a gallon of ale
gaza
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I'm just closing the office to go up the pub too. I'll be celebrating if Everton beat Charlton and Wales beat New Zealand today......come on!
Sore head in the morning though.
Cheers,
Huw.
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No chance on the Wales v New Zealand, even if the Welsh are fired up about the "village Idiots" quote in the NZ press!
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JUST GOING on a all day bender,just wonderered if I could claim back tax for a bonding meeting
You could put it through as "lubrication" ;)
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JUST GOING on a all day bender,just wonderered if I could claim back tax for a bonding meeting trouble is I M A SOLE TRADER.
GAZA [TONGUE IN CHEEK]
LOOKING FORWARD TO MY XMAS PARTY ;D
HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE YOU FIRMS DUE ?
ME a paccket of ccrisps bag of peanuts and a gallon of ale
gaza
OK V. Funny - but seriously - if you were to meet up with fellow window cleaners occasionally to "swap ideas and information and try out new equipment" then surely the food and drink bill (and any accommodation) at the said venue could be put to expenses. If other non-window cleaners were there but could provide info on "interested customers" that might need a quote then surely that'd be legit too.
E.g.
Tosh and two mates go down the pub - one mate works for a local firm, the other is a window installer. So a free exchange of info takes place - the guy at the local firm might talk to his boss about getting a window cleaning quote, the guy who fits windows might ask you to put interested customers his way.
What do you think? - meet up once a month to "exchange info" and all your expenses would be tax deductable.
Only if that is your "main intention" for meeting up at the local boozer/restaurant of course. ;D
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In the same vein, Commanding Officers of army regiments/battalions have an 'entertainment allowance' paid for by us tax payers.
I used to refund them for their expenses.
The CO would invite all their subordinate officers around and have a meal; the army chef was free (sort of, the tax payer covered his wages); and then get p]ssed; judging by the amount of alcohol they'd bought; and we're not talking cans of Carlsberg here.
They'd do this about three or four times a year.
The only rules were was that it was for a 'team building excercise' and 'food' had to be on the menu; not just drinks.
Don't you love paying taxes?
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What do you think? - meet up once a month to "exchange info" and all your expenses would be tax deductable.
Only if that is your "main intention" for meeting up at the local boozer/restaurant of course. ;D
I think when you have receipts for thirty pints of lager, six curries, taxi bills to the local nightclub and a kebab bill, the tax man may think you're taking the mick; if you get investigated.
However, in 'proper' organisations, this would be allowable in a way.
I spent the last three years paying out 'claims' for soldiers going away on 'jollies' (my own too) and I could tell you some stories.
The Fire Strikes were the most fun; I stayed in a lovely hotel in Glasgow (Brown Street; an 'interesting place') and we ate and drank ourselves silly; all at the taxpayers expense; charging each round of drinks to our room number.
At the end of each stint there, I asked for a bill totalling EVERYTHING; ensuring there wasn't a breakdown showing 'porn tv' and 'beer' and stuff.
I paid it when I returned to barracks from the units Imprest account, authorised by the CO.
My stories of public money wasted in the persuit of a good time used to REALLY wind up my brother, whose a hard-working tax payer.
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In the same vein, Commanding Officers of army regiments/battalions have an 'entertainment allowance' paid for by us tax payers.
I used to refund them for their expenses.
The CO would invite all their subordinate officers around and have a meal; the army chef was free (sort of, the tax payer covered his wages); and then get p]ssed; judging by the amount of alcohol they'd bought; and we're not talking cans of Carlsberg here.
They'd do this about three or four times a year.
The only rules were was that it was for a 'team building excercise' and 'food' had to be on the menu; not just drinks.
Don't you love paying taxes?
i was working in tidworth on the kandahar site (i forget the house name, its the 1 that prince charles stays at when they play polo, it overlooks the polo ground and had a rear gate to it, so poor charlie doesnt have to walk to far ;) ), and the top brass was having a party, he bateman was a ok bloke, but the top guy was great, he allways got his bateman to fetch and carry my tools, make me coffee and hoover up after me, if the bateman wasnt on duty, the top brass guy would make me a coffee and go and get me a biscuit ( a nice guy imho)
anways back to the boring story, i made some remake about the party as the rear store room was being prepared for the party, loads and loads of booze
i mentioned i had been to a squadies party in his house a few weeks ago and how civil is was, as i was expecting it to be a brawl, this guy was fairly low and lived in a married house, i became mates with a few, nice to call in and have a coffee on a day when i had little work on
the guy said " you fancy coming and see'ing how the other half of the army live"
he was being serious aswell, i declined and he gaveme a bottle of brandy and said " well have a drink at home"
i dont drink brandy, but i gave it to my bro in law, who said the bottle was worth about 100 quid ::) ::)