Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cockney rebel on December 02, 2009, 07:47:30 am
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Tis the season to be jolly.....and to get tips!! Got my first tip yesterday,£10,what a bonus. It makes you feel that after all the work you put in and all the crap weather you work in, its worth it and it makes you feel apprieciated. Next customer please. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Got a bottle of wine yesterday..which was nice! :)
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Do you have to declare it? I mean, the wine's easy - just drink it in the van on the way home and noone will ever know (unless you kill them, obviously).
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Declare wot!!!!!! ;)
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the best thing to do is expect nothing then if u get a tip then great!i usually end up with about £500 and chocs,wine and beer!£56 for me this week.bring em on!! ;D ;D
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All very nice, maybe next year :(
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bout £60 this week so far and a bottle of red. 3 offers of a snog under mistletoe and three mobile numbers left with saucy words in the cards. Enough about the hubbys.Hopefully i'll get some extras from the wives soon ;D
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I usually get no more than £10 of goods, and that's it! ;D I wouldn't encourage it either.
A local cafe has a 'Staff Xmas Box' on the counter which I think is a bloody cheek. Just think if we went around with a cardboard box wrapping xmas paper 'for the staff'.
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But we don't beg......well not me anyways. If someone wants to bung me a couple o quid for what i think is a bloody good all year round service....then who am i to say nooooooooooo
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1st tip today (of many i hope ::)) £7
I don't expect much this year so, i won't be dissapointed :D
lee
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I've already had £85 and 4 bottles of wine, and it's only Dec 2nd. Should get £250-300 by christmas.
You lot don't look after your customers. ;)
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1 ten quid tip so far and the offer of some home made tablet it's the thought that counts,
Is tablet bad for dogs ? :-\ :-\
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£14 cash
1 bottle of red
1 pot of flowers (now dead)
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Nearly 50 squidlies today, the earliest tipper for me this year was last Tuesday, £20 for an office. Total so far £82 and a box of chocolates, and yes you do have to declare it.
Simon.
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I got about £15.00 so far and bottles of wine,I don't drink the stuff so my missus is well pleased! ;D
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Oh i got a jar of homemade marmelade too. Orange with brown sugar. One of Delia's recipe's by all accounts. They spoil me ;D
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...and yes you do have to declare it.
Simon.
Oh don't be silly! It's a gift, not payment for work!
You'd have be an absolute tool to pay it in as a taxable income. ::)
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Sorry, BUT....declare it my arse. Whether ya have to or not. They can stick it where the sun don't shine.
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Singin from the same hymn sheet squeaks ;) I'm just waiting for some "tool" to tell us what naughty boys we are and that we could get fined..or worse, imprisonment :o
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Got a mate who was investigated by the taxman, they made him pay 17% of monthly turnover extra as undeclared christmas tips. Annoying thing is he had declared them any way. Declare them or not it's up to you, I doubt you'll go to prison, they'll just guestimate what you would have got tips wise in their favour and tax you on that.
Simon (the powerTOOL)
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;D no offence big guy.
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Got a mate who was investigated by the taxman, they made him pay 17% of monthly turnover extra as undeclared christmas tips. Annoying thing is he had declared them any way. Declare them or not it's up to you, I doubt you'll go to prison, they'll just guestimate what you would have got tips wise in their favour and tax you on that.
Simon (the powerTOOL)
Rubbish, he's telling you tall stories. ;D
It's a gift from someone!
Do you declare it when your friend buys you a pint? ::)
And besides, they can't just guess what you've earned or been given anyway. Don't quite think that would stand up in court. ;D
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Ya gotta laugh. Same topic, different year ;)
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http://charterconsultation.hmrc.gov.uk/working/tips-bonuses.htm
Interesting read, again it's your choice but I'm only saying what the law states, and a trusted mate of mine did get clobbered with the let's guess the tips clause. I personally don't like paying anymore tax than I have to.
I guess the reason is that you could tell your customers that the price of window cleaning is £1 provided you get a £20 tip every time, therefore only paying tax on a £1.
I wonder what the tax office does with posties as they get plenty of tips. mmmm.
Simon.
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Oh i got a jar of homemade marmelade too. Orange with brown sugar. One of Delia's recipe's by all accounts. They spoil me ;D
Beat you, off one customer today homemade jar of marmalade, 2 jars of jam, 1 jar of chutney and bottle homemade plonk. I buy the jams of this customer throughout the year for £1.00 each and they are much better than the shops, she makes the jam for the local chiurch and sells at their functions, I am just hoping the plonk tastes as good as the jams do.
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scrouge here says its un earned income and has to be declared but if you do its up to you ( 3 for me 1 for them haha )
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After WW2, the Waffen SS were renamed "German Tax Office". Even they don't want to know about tips. As far as I know, only taxi drivers and waiters have a % reckoned on to their income because it is expected in terms of employment. If this wasn't the case, they would have to account for every single trade being open to tipping, such as leckies or plumbers or whatever. Personally, I wouldn't bother declareing tips. So nur nur nunur nur :P :P :P ;D
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March march march march, bang bang bang,"Open ze door English tax dodging Schweinhund". ???
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When asked how I wanted paying, the other day, I said a cheque is fine, and the customer said, "I bet you'd prefer cash, eh?". Why I asked? It said, so it doesn't have to go in the books. har har not funny you twat. Ok I didn't say twat but it shows their attitude.
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Ya gotta laugh. Same topic, different year ;)
and rogers response is allmost word for word the same ;D ;D
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Ya gotta laugh. Same topic, different year ;)
and rogers response is allmost word for word the same ;D ;D
I know. Different people to educate each year eh...? ;D
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Guess so squeaks. We're just old farts around here now :P