Polling guru Curtice warns Sturgeon on course to tear UK apart with SNP independence

[vetran]

Exporting to EU.

Ireland is English speaking and close by just in case it needs to be visited in person.

US has not got VAT that needs to be collected and split among States, but EU does.

So leaving the EU has just made it like exporting to other countries then?

One hopes you account for sales tax in the US.

[AtW]

So leaving the EU has just made it like exporting to other countries then?

One hopes you account for sales tax in the US.

It’s not necessary for us to charge US sales tax at the moment, would not be surprised if it changes in the next 10 years.

EU and US are big enough markets to register, orders not

[SueEllen]

So leaving the EU has just made it like exporting to other countries then?

One hopes you account for sales tax in the US.

Depends what you are exporting.

Some companies now need to have a warehouse inside the EU, meaning jobs are lost in the UK as staff aren't needed here....

[AtW]

Some companies now need to have a warehouse inside the EU, meaning jobs are lost in the UK as staff aren't needed here....

To be fair right now warehouses are in red hot demand due to increased ecommerce.

Some UK companies will still need warehouse in the UK, plus another one in EU to deal with red tape tulip - if they do it then desire to shift profits from EU trade to 12.5% company in Ireland would be hard to resist, especially given Covid Rishy is about to jack up UK corp tax - looks like back to 25%.

[Gibbon]

Depends what you are exporting.

Some companies now need to have a warehouse inside the EU, meaning jobs are lost in the UK as staff aren't needed here....

Well from close sources, most of the workers in (the south Yorkshire coal mining regeneration area) are east European anyway.

[vetran]

Depends what you are exporting.

Some companies now need to have a warehouse inside the EU, meaning jobs are lost in the UK as staff aren't needed here....

Hmm do the EU not suffer the same problem or is the deal not symmetrical?

Are you saying that they don't need a warehouse in the UK anymore or is it just fewer minimum wage agency staff ?

Minimum for small proper warehouse (>£10 millions) is normally 3 people - 1 Manager (~25k), 1 assistant manager (£20k) and a body(£12K) so they can cover holidays and busy periods. Has been for decades. May have dropped recently. Frequently smaller warehouses had one of the Engineering or procurement staff doing it as part of their job.

Previous employers spent ages closing warehouses and either outsourcing or offshoring them. Drop ship from the factory or just use the ships transporting goods to hold the majority of stock. They called it Just in time delivery like manufacturing, it arrived in a suppliers store and was delivered directly. Large units or orders went from factory to customer.

[vetran]

To be fair right now warehouses are in red hot demand due to increased ecommerce.

Some UK companies will still need warehouse in the UK, plus another one in EU to deal with red tape tulip - if they do it then desire to shift profits from EU trade to 12.5% company in Ireland would be hard to resist, especially given Covid Rishy is about to jack up UK corp tax - looks like back to 25%.

Be true Ireland is set to have an unprecedented commercial boost.

[AtW]

“Just in time delivery” is the term from the before B.....t times

[vetran]

Well from close sources, most of the workers in (the south Yorkshire coal mining regeneration area) are east European anyway.

Was happening down south as well. Not many people want to work in a warehouse for 10 hours at minimum wage when there are benefits to be had. Either up the wage, drop the benefits or automate.

After Brexit was announced the next comment at the town hall meeting was - "who are we going to employ when our production line & warehouse staff go home"? These organisations had been going for decades and frequently employed whole British families but suddenly replaced all their staff with Eastern Europeans after 2004. Production was exported to Africa and the warehouse workers are minimum wage Agency workers of any flavour.

[AtW]

Was happening down south as well. Not many people want to work in a warehouse for 10 hours at minimum wage when there are benefits to be had. Either up the wage, drop the benefits or automate.

After Brexit was announced the next comment at the town hall meeting was - "who are we going to employ when our production line & warehouse staff go home"? These organisations had been going for decades and frequently employed whole British families but suddenly replaced all their staff with Eastern Europeans after 2004. Production was exported to Africa and the warehouse workers are minimum wage Agency workers of any flavour.

That was the key problem, and it wasn’t EUs fault it happened - it was (successive) British Govts, just like low minimum wage wqsn’t set by EU