Joeman

Yep, I did the backbox Thursday evening in the dark and 1.5degrees outside temperature...

yep, thats my plan... its only worth a few hundred quid, so 15quid is quite an investment!

My old dog wagon (an old W-Reg, VW Passat Estate) is due for an MOT. The hydraulic bonnet lifter broke sometime back in the summer, about the same time the backbox fell off, so i removed the lifter and have been using my head, or a bit of wood, or whatever i can find close to hand to keep it propped open on the rare occasion i decided to open the bonnet. Question is, will it pass the MOT without any form of device to hold the bonnet open?? The only thing i could find was this: http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m4s08000401.htm so i reckon it will pass... what you guys and gals think? any reason they can fail me on a missing bonnet prop?? The MOT costs 30quid, and a new bonnet prop will cost about 15quid from ebay.. if it passes i'll treat the old gal to a new bonnet prop

using the socket as a drift to knock the pin out of the joint... but tbh, you might be better buying the ready assembled join from ebay...

for the fine to be enforceable they have to firstly prove it was you, and prove that by overstaying your welcome you cost them 85 quid. So wait as long as you can until they've recorded over the CCTV footage for the day and they cant prove it was you. and they will never prove you cost them 85 quid so not much they can do.

i think you should fit a sidecar...

As soon as I can get to my bike again I'll be back out riding. Its been blocked inside my garage for the last 13weeks buy building supplies. I'm on the meetup group too so I'll be out with the London bikers with you phil soon.

do it. i'm sick of people thinking they can run a business, and then screwing up and expecting no comeback. probably some dole scrounger who thinks running a fake internet shop is a good way to fuel his underage pregnant girlfriends crack addiction.

Pretty sure they are not allowed to profit from the situation. They can only make you pay a fee that's equivalent to what they've lost. they also have to respond in writing within 14 days, so send them a letter querying the figure.

start the paypal resolution right away - dont give them more time these crooks relay on people giving them the benefit of the doubt to buy more time to rip off more people. Nail them right away!!!

You sure its not a land banking scam? Does it say its a good investment??

after the lawsuit it will all be public record

Everything is filled electronically these days, salary needs to filled real-time, vat quarterly, etc etc... so without its own IT equipment, how can the company expect to operate? And where does the company expect to keep its IT equipment and files full of important paperwork that it needs to be kept for 7 years? The company cannot expect the director to keep these assets and paperwork at his own home taking up space without compensating him for it.

Assets are deducted from profits (so reduce tax). Expenses are different. Laptops, furniture, etc are assets and follow capital allowance rules in ref. to the value of the asset and the amount deducted from profit to lower tax burden. Expenses are things like printer ink, coffee, etc or the book definition "a business expense must be necessary and that is wholly and exclusively incurred as part of the day to day running of your business" (but does not meet the criteria for an asset). Further more there are tax deductible and non tax deductible expenses, obviously tax deductible is best as it comes off the profit, so lowers your tax burden further. Fiddling expenses to extract cash is a bad idea (though a common one). You won't pull meaningful amounts of cash out of a business via assets and expenses unless you are being somewhat "creative", though being "creative" may not be looked upon with awe if HMRC want to see the books. Not saying a limited company is a bad idea (it's a good one) but if this is a onetime big wedge of cash it will take a while to actually extract it all legitimately that way while minimising tax. (wife has nearly qualified as an accountant and she gets me to read her books and test her so I've absorbed a silly amount of pointless info, though I'm far from knowledgeable) You are correct. However, with everything online these days, any newly formed company needs a computer in order to file its accounts, check its email, etc etc, so a laptop computer and a new printer are perfectly valid purchases for any newly formed company. Buy top of the range macbook pro and that's a couple of grand extracted from the company in the form of a useful asset.

You can take a tax free lumpsum by taking a directors loan thats paid back by declaring dividends in the next tax year.. Also your newly formed company will need various things to operate (new laptop, share of home internet connection, use of home office etc etc) so you can claim expenses against the company to extract more cash.

Why dissolve it? Keep the company alive so that you can draw the dividends over the next few years. If you dissolve it right away, you'll draw the cash and have to pay tax so no point dissolving in the same tax year.

Lol, yes thought of that.. Also though of reporting an unexploded bomb in his garden so the military turn up and he shit himself when he see men with guns.

I use a limited company to avoid the 40% tax. Tax is then limited to corporation tax rate of 20%.

we grew up in the best era didnt we... kids these days have no clue how good we had it. all they want is the latest iPhone. I just wanted a bigger penknife and some more rope to build a bigger rope swing or zip wire. Then when i got to 10 years old I wanted petrol for my bike and pellets for my air riffle, or a thicker rubber band for my catapult - everything happened outdoors.

Same here.. Ive had all sorts of evil ideas.. From mid feb when my current contract ends, I'm gonna become his worst nightmare..

Oh and ive dropped an email to channel5 cowboy builders show with his name and company details in case anyone else has reported him

So it turns out that taking an advanced payment and then not delivering the goods is classed as fraud. The police have a nice fraud website that let's you tick a few boxes, leave the tradesmen's details and its over to them. I'm guessing they'll contact me first before him, but the balls are certainly rolling...

Eh??

All the work for a learner bike?? Brave man..

ive got a photo somewhere of my wheelie light coming on at just over 100mph