Makita Impact Driver

And if you pay it into the bank before you go home then Mrs Medway Handywife can't extract it out of your overall pockets.

Owain

Tut tut. A real man would spend it all in the pub before going home.

I suppose it's a calculated risk then whether he returns home to find dinner in the oven or the dog.

Owain

Probably true but after successfully telling Gordon to stick IR35 up his arse I get a little cocky.

My lecky mate once had a full tax investigation - from what he tells me the inspectors were thrown out of the Gestapo for excessive seal. Doesn't sound pleasant.

According to my accountant, the VAT people are considerably worse.......

Too true.

After reading some of the posts here, I thought I would try a Ryobi unit.

I have recently used it to frame a hipped roof, and instead of the normal bolt malarky, we used coach screws and the time saving is unbelievable.

Also, used a Paslode nail gun for the first time too, and again, incredible tool and time saver.

If anyone has used a Ryobi impact driver and also one form the supposedly 'better' makes, is there any significant difference?

I also see that Bosch have just bought out a 10.8 lithium 100Nm impact driver and this is the same size and shape as their excellent screwdriver. That would definately be worth a look

dg

Yes. My wife had a very similar experience at one company where she worked. On that occasion, there were two of them - Mr Nice and Mr Hardball and they just wandered into the office while she was alone there. Similar bully tactics and in the end nothing. Not that she was responsible for the accounts anyway. Not even an apology as they left.

The first VAT inspection I had c.1990 was by a bolshy 20-something guy who was determined to find something. After a whole morning he asked whether my accountant had produced any accounts: he had and I passed them over. After another half hour I was called over and formally cautioned, then asked why the accounts showed sales of £28K and my last 4 VAT returns, £22K. I took great pleasure in pointing out to him that if he had looked properly the accounts were for our first 15 months trading so he should have added up five returns. A hasty departure followed

I think even a real man might have trouble drinking a whole garden deck in one sitting ;-)

I have always found the VAT folks easy to deal with. First inspection the chap had a quick look at the files, then spent half an hour attempting to give us money (have you claimed for your phone bill etc). He then explained that (no offence) we were of no real interest to them and he would schedule a return visit for seven years or something like that. That was 1992 and they have never came back. (we get the occasional phone call instead, with a couple of basic questions, and a "we won't be needing to see you this time" response).

I suspect that it does depend on your revenue and pattern of trading.

That mirrors my own experience of the VAT man but I found the 'when did you stop beating your wife' type questions of the IR35 witchhunt . . . sorry PAYE compliance review a little tiresome but it never got past the first stage.

Yup, very much so.

I can well imagine. Did you handle them yourself, or let the likes of Accountax beat them bloody?

Good on ya Dave, you'll never go back to the other none impact things.

I run a 14.5 volt Makita 6935FD. I had my old 12 volt one (about 5 years old and still on the original pair of batteries) pinched and replaced it straight away. There's an old saying, tools don't cost you money they make you money.

Very true in this case. First job I used it for was wandering over a two story roof belting 12g pan head teks though

Regards

I did it myself but I had a few points in my favour: A top accountant, well versed in IR35 issues A very well written contract The year they chose to look at was pretty clean My client would have backed up anything I said The investigator chap was actually quite nice and smiled broadly when I asked him which of the self employment indicators each trick . . . sorry innocuous untargeted question was directed at (control, substitution, mutuality of obligation etc).

I've been VAT inspected twice. On both occasions they were polite and helpful.