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    Mental Health

    Yes, get yourself into talking therapy (with an approved (UKCP/BAPC) integrated psychotherapist)... probably long term. Crisis's are an opportunity to choose a different path. Seen positively in that way, they are the very thing necessary to drive one to change. Most people choose the old well...
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    Accounting software for small sole trader hairdresser

    We recently tried Sage Online, it was vile to use. Forced back to Quickbooks Online, which is better, but still has it's weird issues. We read about too many problems with Xero to bother trialing it.
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    Advice on setting up PAYE using SAGE PAYE but...

    When Quickbooks Desktop closed it's payroll software, we moved to Brightpay desktop, and found them helpful, and the software, relatively easy to get to grips with. As QB Desktop was recently discontinued, we tried Sage Online (OMG what sort of a wreck is that pile of garbage), closed the Sage...
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    Is Every Single UK Import Agent Run By Crooks?

    We have a cash account with HMRC... full of cash... and despite authorising many different hauliers/importers to use it to use it, and telling them to do so... they don't... it's never been touched... the vague answers we get for why they don't use it are that it doesn't actually work. So we get...
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    How long will these anti Covid measures be req ? There's a bit of a trend here.....

    The ONS recently published its age standardised mortality rates for England & Wales. [1] Starting on the extreme left, this chart covers every year from 1942. You can see the spike from the 1951 flu epidemic. Most importantly, it also includes provisional figures from last year (2020) on the...
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    The UK economy 2021....are we heading for destruction??

    1. 2021, from an economic point of view will be hard Yes, but some businesses will still thrive 2. house prices and housing market will crash Who knows... but can't see it myself. 3. Unemployment will go up Yes 4. Interest rates will rise No 5. Borrowing will be hard No more than normal
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    Furlough, latest guidance

    The law (para 6.6) doesn't state what exemptions a director does not have, to work when furloughed. It states what exemptions a director does have to work. It's very clear and concise. The HMRC guidance you mention regarding directors 'services' mentioned in the video, concerns directors...
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    Furlough, latest guidance

    Apparently not yours... lol
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    Furlough, latest guidance

    Oh dear... your comments are completely ridiculous. The Chancellors Direction to HMRC is indeed the law, it is made by the powers granted to the Chancellor under 71 & 76 of the CoronaVirus Act 2020.
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    Furlough, latest guidance

    The written law is extremely clear, and the written law is the only thing that counts. 'Income generation' is not used in any way to frame the exemption to Directors work at all, so please ignore it. The government ring fenced what you could do far more clearly. We're also not very interested in...
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    Furlough, latest guidance

    Please read the Chancellors direction to HMRC of 15th April under sect 71 & 76 of the CoronaVirus Act 2020, made on the 15th April... that's the legal framework for the CJRS scheme... As a furloughed Director, the Chancellors direction (para 6.6) allows you to do any work necessary to supply...
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    What can furloughed directors do?

    Under particular circumstances, that will fine too... it is under my circumstances... My business is still running, and my employees have been directed by me, to continue processing customers orders, and shipping them. I'm just not involved in any of that. I'm sat at home 'shielded' under...
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    CBILS - Changes are too little and too late

    I'm very sympathetic to those views... indeed I tend to agree with them... our experience of the business rates grant suggests it has been a poor way of targeting the right businesses. I don't think the people at the top have the relevant experience, or are particularly good in a crisis like...
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    What can furloughed directors do?

    As a Director, you are not forbidden from doing any work required to supply information to meet a duty or obligation related to the business of running your company. Of course you can do any work required to pay invoices... and wages...
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    What can furloughed directors do?

    Exactly... As a Director, you can do any work required to supply information to fulfill a duty or obligation related to the business of running your company. That exemption granted to directors does not mention any work required to supply goods or services, it only exempts the supply of...
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