UK industrial design rate

Thats unfare. I think its because very rich Londoners are moving out to
the Gloucestershire countryside.

 

probably, I did the commute to London for 2 years - the cost of my
mortgage plus travel costs were still less than the guys who lived
there and my 1 hour commute was not much longer than their tube journey

Kev

 

Yeh I just looked up Haddenham.. its quite a bit closer to London than
me. Still a pretty cheap price though. I might think of moving
somewhere quiet but as near as possible to London.

 

Just curious, but if you get the to your stop at 9:30 and into work at,
say, 10, how long is your day?

 

I start at 10 as well and finish at 6 (wake up at 7 and get home at
8.30). I used to wake up at 5 and get home at 7, but that got a bit
much after 6 months.

 

Try the Mercedes & Bentley dealers.

 

Yea - VAT ( Value Added Tax) is a sales tax that is set by each nation
in the EU at different levels. If you are VAT registered business you
can claim back VAT on business purchases.

Council Tax covers the above except most is provided by central
government not the local government

£250,000 is the threshold and then 40% of any of the estate above
this. However the very rich use trusts and offshore accounts to get
around all this, and can end up paying no inheritance tax. However in
the UK - house prices have shot up so much in 10 years that a very
large proportion of housing now falls into the 250,000 bracket and
inheritance tax catches people who cannot afford trust lawyers to plan
to avoid this tax. Trusts , set up in the time of the crusades to
allow people to go off to Palestine and leave their estates 'in trust'
are now, in my opinion, a social scam and a major cause for the rich
getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The rich just don't pay
taxes anymore to the same proportion as the poor on their disposable
income. Its never , in the history of the world, been a better time
to be a billionaire !! - The only threat to your money is your own
or your childrens stupidity, nothing else, not even if your money is
illegal because its still safe in Western banks. I think America is
on the right lines in jailling finacial fraud - here they just walk.

If you are interested in Pre-Revolution history - read 'White Devil'
by Stephen Brumwell - its about Robert Rogers who founded the American
Rangers and is a real eye opener on the social fabric of the Mohicans
and all the tribes living the North East. They were not as the Mel
Gibson school of history portrays them - in fact half were
English,Irish and Scots etc who prefered the woods to their fellow
settlers;-)

It has a few interesting takes on the pre-revolution issues regarding
tax on the colonists and the cost of the 1750s war with France and who
had to pay ;-) and who did not ;-) - suffice to say - the American
colonies were pretty much a tax free zone compared to the UK ;-).
Pretty much the reverse situation to the last 50 years where the US
has paid for the defense of Europe ;-) - so its all evened out in the
end ;-)

TTFN

Jonathan

 

In the US it is the AMT or Alternative Minimum Tax that is catching the
middle class every year. This tax was meant to make the well to do pay
a minimum amount of tax even with all the deductions and loopholes
available. But with many households with two breadwinners making an
aggregate of over $100,000 per year this is starting to hit the upper
middle class of whom there are quite a few. The law makers forgot to
put an inflation adjustment into many of the "rich" taxes. It is hard
to believe that when I was a little kid my dad could support the whole
family and buy a house with a $90 per week pay packet.

 

Since when?

 

Also, how do you charge for rendering? If a render takes 30 hours
surely you dont charge 30 hours of work?... or do you?