Interesting Links for 16-02-2015

[andrewducker]

• Inquiry into child sexual abuse by establishment figures could look at crimes as far back as 1945
  (tags: Child_abuse politics uk )
• Now, I can see wifi signals
  (tags: WiFi visualisation )
• Iain Banks asked Ken MacLeod to write the next Culture novel. Thankfully, he won't be. (Though I like Ken's work.)
  (tags: IainBanks TheCulture viaPatrickHadfield

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Ed Balls is either on crack, or being quoted out of context.

I can certainly see that as an MP, claiming expenses, you need receipts for everything. But otherwise...? We had a roofer fix a few broken tiles the other week, charged us 50 quid and when I asked if he preferred cash or cheque, guess what the reply was...

[andrewducker]

By handing over cash you are, of course, abetting tax evasion.

[momentsmusicaux]

Should I really be insisting on paying by cheque?

[andrewducker]

To be honest, I don't think so. After all, cheques don't make things more or less illegal, they just give more of a trail.

(And I haven't seen my chequebook in years - I do everything electronically nowadays.)

[a_pawson]

No there is nothing wrong with paying by cash, but you should insist on getting some form of receipt, which includes the VAT amount if the individual or company is VAT registered (which they have to be if they turnover more than £70,000 per annum).

[anef]

The VAT registration limit has gone up a bit since it was £70,000. Now £81,000 as per the Internets.

[skington]

The context is "since I've been involved in politics and Treasury matters" - perhaps he's trying too hard, being more royalist than the Queen, but it's not unreasonable to think that the tabloids are going to be trying to nab you on a trumped-up charge of cheating on tax, so always insist on a receipt.