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Official Contractor UK Budget Thread 2017

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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    One that slipped under the radar: they're opening up the Ordnance Survey MasterMap data

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...overnment-data
    Useful ty!!

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      Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
      We've missed your crap.
      I'll make an effort to post a bit more. Just thought I'd comment on this since apparently HMT gets a good giggle out of unnerving contractors every Autumn, coincidentally just after Halloween.

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        Did anybody notice in the budget document under policy decisions subsection avoidance,evasion,fraud & error...item number 39 avoidance and evasion:additional compliance resource how the numbers leap from £10M in 2018/19 to £170M the following year and again to £540M the year after and then to £740M by 2022/23. Just saying!

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          Originally posted by Yorkie62 View Post
          Did anybody notice in the budget document under policy decisions subsection avoidance,evasion,fraud & error...item number 39 avoidance and evasion:additional compliance resource how the numbers leap from £10M in 2018/19 to £170M the following year and again to £540M the year after and then to £740M by 2022/23. Just saying!
          If they sorted out VAT fraud they would get a lot of that money.
          "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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            Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
            If they sorted out VAT fraud they would get a lot of that money.
            Had an eye opening experience of chatting with an official receiver a few years ago while sitting in a hospital A&E. The crux of the discussion was Vat fraud is virtually undetectable and nearly all the cases he had seen, were found out by pure chance rather than business intelligence. As it stood criminal gangs could open 50 businesses hit HMRC for a rebate on the very first return and zip off back into the distance. The work in finding those companies would tie inspectors up for years. At the time he was furious that anything under 2 million in fraud was automatically binned as uneconomical to chase.

            That leaves an awful lot of space for lost revenue. And in most cases HMRC wouldn't even see it as a fraud case.

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              Well, that's plan B sorted then

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                Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
                Well, that's plan B sorted then
                Putting Official Receivers into hospital? You'll be competing with Brillo.

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                  Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
                  Putting Official Receivers into hospital? You'll be competing with Brillo.
                  Got to get through divorce lawyers first.

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                    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
                    Putting Official Receivers into hospital? You'll be competing with Brillo.
                    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                    Got to get through divorce lawyers first.
                    Why don't you just get them into cycling. The unfit ones won't make it very far, and you just need to point the fit ones in the right direction.
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                      Originally posted by Zero Liability View Post
                      Amen.

                      Who knows, maybe he'll form his own limited company, divert all his income into it and ***** off whilst some other monkey deals with the fallout of his and May's ineptitude.
                      Calling Boris....

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