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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Taking cash and not declaring it
« Last post by Stoots on Yesterday at 03:40:03 pm »
Years ago the local window cleaner where i lived as a kid was one of my mates dad, he said in his house he found cash everywhere lol,  in cupboards, down back off sofa etc, the guy had 3 or 4 lads working for him and it was all cash. Bought his house in cash, wallet was brimming with it  :D.

Cant imagine there was a single window cleaner back in the old cash collection days who declared every penny. Every window cleaner ive ever known doesnt or hasnt declared all their cash why would you lets be real.

Mines all Bacs btw wallets always empty.


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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Taking cash and not declaring it
« Last post by Spruce on Yesterday at 03:35:02 pm »
I've never done it as I was brought up in a very strict Christian family where any dishonesty was frowned upon.

I have a window cleaning friend, who does the opposite, always takes cash where possible and doesn't declare it.

The vast majority of my customers pay by bank transfer but I do still get people offering me cash, which I turn down. Also people trying to get a lower price by paying cash.  Had a lady the other day that did that and she was shocked I wouldn't take it.

Just wondering whether I'm mugging myself off. Not exactly thrilled with how my tax is used by the government.

Do HMRC even investigate tiny one man businesses?

By the way I still wouldn't take cash even if I was going to declare it as I dont have a bank near me to deposit it with.

The post office down the road from us will take cash deposits into my bank account. If I present my debit card, the amount is credited to my account virtually instantly.

We still have a large number of customers who pay by cash. Every cash receipt is recorded on our software. Every day I balance my cash tin against the cash payment/s received. Cash tips are also included but listed separately.  (What I don't 'declare' is any bottles of wine, boxes of chocolates or boxes of biscuits we are given. How do we put a monetary value on these items?)

I've done a breakdown of our receipts over the past 2 months.
45% of our receipts are cash.
54% are bank transfer
1% are cheques.
Cash tips included in the cash receipts come to 5%.

If I didn't declare my cash receipts or some of my cash receipts, then business running expenses would be skew and could show up on the tax man's algorithm. Firstly, running two sets of books is dishonest and secondly, I don't want to be looking over my shoulder every day.

Over the years we have found out that at least 3 of our customers have worked from the HMRC, and a number are also policemen.

The other thing is, imho, that it is not our concern what the government spends our tax bucks on.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Taking cash and not declaring it
« Last post by simon w on Yesterday at 03:07:54 pm »
Sell your customers who wish to pay by cash to your mate and he can pay you in cash  ;D
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Window Cleaning Forum / Taking cash and not declaring it
« Last post by jay moley on Yesterday at 01:41:46 pm »
I've never done it as I was brought up in a very strict Christian family where any dishonesty was frowned upon.

I have a window cleaning friend, who does the opposite, always takes cash where possible and doesn't declare it.

The vast majority of my customers pay by bank transfer but I do still get people offering me cash, which I turn down. Also people trying to get a lower price by paying cash.  Had a lady the other day that did that and she was shocked I wouldn't take it.

Just wondering whether I'm mugging myself off. Not exactly thrilled with how my tax is used by the government.

Do HMRC even investigate tiny one man businesses?

By the way I still wouldn't take cash even if I was going to declare it as I dont have a bank near me to deposit it with.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Migrating from Textlocal to Webex
« Last post by WGB on Yesterday at 09:46:47 am »
I might try and do it through mobile for a month or 2 to try it out, thats if its easy enough to send out mass txt
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Using your skills elsewhere.
« Last post by windowswashed on October 25, 2025, 09:05:33 pm »
Any takers?

Cardigan extreme cleaner goes from washing windows to crime scenes - BBC News https://share.google/FuWUwvkWR9jhA52cw

No thanks to that job.

I've had a few unpleasant jobs like straightening a bonnet with partial human remains on it from Ulster defence police office attached to the vehicle part.
Sealed one of my friends in a coffin witnessed by officers to be deported back to the UK by customs, very unpleasant and upsetting for me and my comrades on operational tour.
Had to take a loaded gun off someone who pointed it at point blank range in my face who wanted me to go to heaven early.
Had worse that left ptsd for many a year but won't mention them
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Migrating from Textlocal to Webex
« Last post by anderclean on October 25, 2025, 05:09:04 pm »
Webex didn't work for us,  then tried text marketer, also no good
Voodoo is the one, we use it with Aworka
Seamless (so far :D)
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Using your skills elsewhere.
« Last post by The Jester of Wibbly on October 25, 2025, 12:57:23 pm »
A knocker upper 😂
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Slick Connect - UPDATE
« Last post by Pete Thompson on October 25, 2025, 09:34:13 am »
Update on my experience of using the Slick Connect fittings for 8 months.

I absolutely love them and I’m very impressed how long they have lasted! But you must use O-Ring lubricant.

After about 2 months I found it was getting harder and harder to connect them, and thought “uh oh these didn’t last long”. I replaced the “O” rings and all was well for a few weeks, then the same thing happened.

So I bought some “O” ring lubricant from Amazon (https://amzn.eu/d/h6a6LPf) £4.29 for 2 tubes, so not expensive.

I applied a bit to each O ring. PROBLEM SOLVED!

I did this back in August and have not had to do it again. They are all working perfectly.

As I was reeling in a few weeks ago, some numpty car driver didn’t want to wait the 10 seconds it would have taken for me to finish and just drove over my hose (no problem, it happens!)

But I watched in horror as the car wheel drove directly over the female slick connector, certain that would crush it.

It didn’t. And I was able to carry on working with no problems.

I’ve only just replaced the two female ones I have on each reel as the outer casings were a bit scuffed.

All in all, I’m very impressed. A great product that has been well thought-out and works exactly as it should!
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: MTD
« Last post by dazmond on October 25, 2025, 09:19:42 am »
I have to sign up to this next year, wondering if someone can confirm for me if my interpretation of it is correct.

Does it mean all receipts need to be digitally uploaded? And if they aren't uploaded does that mean you can't claim for it?.

I'm going to keep paper and digital receipts moving forward.

Basically all I do at present is keep all my expense receipts in a physical folder with my end of year accounts printed off cleaner planner for that tax year. The only difference when MTD comes into force (in April 2027  for me)is I'll also store all my receipts in a digital folder too and use something like 123sheets(bridging software) to upload 3 monthly accounts to HMRC.

Is cleanerplanner not integrating MTD?

Squeegee is. I’ll be ditching quickbooks and doing all my accounting through squeegee from April, looks simple.

I'll seriously look at swapping over to Squeegee if they integrate with MTD to make things simpler
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