Archive for March, 2010
BBC News Reader At The Tax Tribunal
The recently published decision by the Tax Tribunal went against the taxpayer despite her threat to read the news totally naked if the decision went against her!
Will it happen? I doubt it. This was part of the defence that BBC news presenter Sian Williams made in her battle to have her expenses for clothes, hair and laundry allowed against her BBC income.
H M Revenue & Customs – Can We Trust Them?
I was asked this morning about the “friendly” face HM Revenue & Customs are putting on by sponsoring a tv show on channel 5 called “The Business Inspector”. The series of 4 programs start this evening and are introduced by a local (to me) C4 Secret Millionaire Hilary Devey. A spokesman for HMRC Stephen Banyard said he hopes the series will raise awareness of the need for good record keeping amoungst the small business community and reduce the £6bn a year lost by the Exchequer by a “failure to take reasonable care of the business records”
I Couldn’t Resist This – It Is Just Brilliant!
As an ex-classical guitar player, I was truly amazed when Matt’s music teacher showed us this after his lesson this week for a bit of light relief:-