And let's hope he didn't take his dog Silver into the supermarket with him, or Aunt Meg will be getting somebody else to do her shopping !
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And let's hope he didn't take his dog Silver into the supermarket with him, or Aunt Meg will be getting somebody else to do her shopping !
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Who says they do?
They pay all employers taxes on those staff, and also deduct PAYE from their pay as required.
As an international firm, they (legally) use their corporate structure to ensure that their profits are taxed in the most tax efficient way.
If the government don't like that, they are free to either 1) change the rules, or 2) Lower corporation tax to the point where the UK is the most tax efficient place for companies to head-quarter and divert profits.
While I have no objection to the intent, it will be interesting to see what they unintended consequences are...
For example, will the increase of people wandering round the shop with quantities of their own bags result in an increase in shoplifting?
There was also one story I read recently where a Tesco branch nearly ran out of baskets because people were taking them to their cars!
It gives some. More to the point, its not the bags themselves that make complying with the legislation difficult, its the data collection and reporting, under threat of fine that would be a right PITA for a small business.
The legislation requires:
"Keeping records
You must keep a reporting year?s records for 3 years from 31 May in the following reporting year. For example, you must keep the records for 5 October 2015 to 6 April 2016 until 31 May 2019.
You must record for the whole reporting year:
the number of single-use carrier bags you supplied the gross and net proceeds of the charge any VAT in the gross proceeds what you did with the proceeds from the charge any reasonable costs and how they break down
Send records to Defra
You must send your records to Defra on or before 31 May following the end of the reporting year. For example, for the period 5 October 2015 to
6 April 2016 you must send your details by 31 May 2016.This information will be made public.
You must send your name and email to snipped-for-privacy@defra.gsi.gov.uk.
If you send your name and email before the deadline you?ll get advice on how to report, and get reminders about when to report. Reasonable costs
Reasonable costs include new costs you incurred by following the law on charging. This might include:
the cost of changing till systems training staff communicating the policy to staff and customers getting expert advice administering donations to good causes
You can?t include existing costs, such as the cost of the bags. Trading across different regions
If you trade across different regions of the UK, you can apply for a Primary Authority agreement. You can then choose to deal with just one local authority rather than the authorities in each area you trade in. Replying to public enquiries
Members of the public can ask you for copies of your carrier bag records. You must give them copies within 28 days. Dealing with the proceeds
Once you?ve deducted reasonable costs, it?s expected that you?ll donate all proceeds to good causes, particularly environmental causes.
You can see how Carrier Bag Charges Wales:
benefits good causes reduces carrier bag waste
Getting inspected
Your local authority inspects you to check you are following the law. Inspectors can:
visit your shop or store make test purchases speak to staff demand records
Inspectors don?t have to give you warning but can carry these our as ?secret shopper? exercises. If they find a problem they can:
issue a non-compliance notice stating what the you must do to fix the problem impose a fixed penalty impose a variable penalty order you to publicise (eg adverts in local papers or posters in your store) that you?ve broken the law, what your penalty was and how you?re are now complying
Inspectors can order you to cover the cost of the investigation if you break the law."
Unless they give away paper bags ;-)
If you look them up you'll find that Amazon very rarely posts a profit. Any surpluses are ploughed back into the business, and their share price since day one - as with all the other dot-coms - has always been based on hopes of jam tomorrow.
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you have to be careful not to double-count the taxes
the customers pay the VAT, not the company, who just collect it.
the employees pay the PAYE and EENI (you can take a view whether they'd be unemployed if not employed by Amazon) but amazon only pay the ERNI.
Those that know about such things.
The Amazon group posted a strong UK performance in 2014, with overall takin gs rising by more than 14% to £5.3bn. However, its British-based Amazon.c o.uk Limited subsidiary recorded a profit of just £34.4m and tax of £11 .9m, according to results filed at Companies House this week.
Not much on zero hour contracts compared to the tax amazon should be paying .
if I could get my employer to pay my wages into an account outside the UK I too would pay less tax but for me that is illegal as I;m a resident in teh UK but amazon isn;t I guess they've proved this because the amaos river is nl;t in the UK so they don't make money in the UK do they.
Do many greengrocers employ more than 250 people, then?
Greengrocers use paper bags so they can work out your bill on them. Writing on polythene isn't as easy.
It is if you get the right sort of pen, those permentent markers can be fun too. ;-)
I'm not sure what they class greengrocers as... do those that put out teh b ananas and apples and greens etc classed as greengrocers if they work in As da or lidle or any other large supermarkets. I've always considered those that cut up meat for you and those that serve real fish are butchers and fi shmongers even if they do work in a department store. So I'm not sure how they are counted do you know ?
Reminds me of here when my job is to 'impart my knowledge' to the students, but I'm not allowed to teach them as I don't have a teaching qualification so can;t pay me for teaching.
Yup, a Tesco Express opened in the village a few years ago.
After sometime I complained to one of the chaps that there seemed to be hardly any baskets (either by the door, or by the tills) and he said most had been taken.
There is a story in todays Daily Wail about a block 'suffering cos of the 5p bags'.
Stupid git wouldn't buy a bag, tried to take the basket out and they wouldn't let him - he apparently got banned - which no doubt means he then got arsey with the staff.
I wonder which one of the regular posters here...?
Well, here's another one, where Tescos had to apologise:
"Tesco has apologised after security guards accosted a shopper in a car park and accused her of trying to steal a basket to avoid paying 5p for a plastic bag.
The guards told Khalia Smith, 21, that the new 5p charge had seen a rise in thefts of baskets and that she was only allowed to take shopping to her car in a trolley. One of the guards tried to grab the basket from her in an altercation that has gone viral online."
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Not often you see "those who know" and guardian in the same sentence ;-)
So 34m profit, and 11.9m corporation tax, sounds like they actually paid too much!
There is no separate tax regime for people on zero hours contracts - its the same PAYE rates as full time employees.
They are paying what they "should" - they are just choosing to not do it here.
Saw a nice cartoon to that effect the other day - an medieval llooking army on horseback turns up to meet and opposing force, and one of the generals exclaims that he expected there to be less of them. A shout of "fewer" goes out from the opposing ranks.
The scene was titled "The pedants revolt"
Yes, that's been making the rounds on Facebook.
It goes the rounds on the "Extreme Pedantry" group on Facebook.
Their title picture is the best:
Picture of pirate captain and mate. Mate says "The cannons be ready, Captain". And the captains says: "Ar".
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