After speaking to benefit claimants they said “If we can get the odd day cash in hand then no point coming off the dole, we are much better off”
Dole £72, Rent £91, C tax £18 = £182 + £60 for 1 day cash = £242 take home for 8 hours
Employed would need to earn approx. £1350 gross
So my logic is if people didn’t pay cash in hand then it may well stop the above situation.
I have always refused to pay cash (without receipt) even to plumber etc because if I did, I’m saying it’s ok for him/her to avoid paying tax.
This is just my opinion, maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m not, the next 10 posts will tell I’m sure
By the way I’m not usually sat reading forums at 2.45am, I’m sat in the cab twiddling my thumbs, I’ve been pumping flood water for more days than I can count, (I’m on log book not tacho as on for water company) oh my I’m bored to night, usually I’m moving hoses around or if in the day chatting to passers by but tonight last time I moved the hoses was 7pm
I’ll agree with MS, they do think differently. For most people, having a job goes without saying, gives you a sense of worth, lets you pay the bills, fund hobbies etc.
However, for the doleys, getting cash in hand work, while still getting their benefits, provides the same sense of worth. Hobbies tend to include finding reasons to not work, drinking and smoking their days (and available cash) away.
@cliffy, theoretical as it is, why pay 1k for it when a doley will do it for a pack of ■■■■.
Dav1d:
I’ll agree with MS, they do think differently. For most people, having a job goes without saying, gives you a sense of worth, lets you pay the bills, fund hobbies etc.
However, for the doleys, getting cash in hand work, while still getting their benefits, provides the same sense of worth. Hobbies tend to include finding reasons to not work, drinking and smoking their days (and available cash) away.
@cliffy, theoretical as it is, why pay 1k for it when a doley will do it for a pack of ■■■■.
not talking about the doleys …just wondering if mr muckshifter would hire his machine out for a handful of cash …
I pay enough tax and national insurance a year to not feel guilty if someone offered me a days work on the weekend for a bit of cash. I’ve just bought a house when I bought my flat my solicitor fees were £1200 my fees now are £3500 when I ask why so much £2250 stamp duty, tax for buying a house with the money I’ve already saved and been taxed on. I wouldn’t loose any sleep for doing a few days back handed.
Karl86:
I pay enough tax and national insurance a year to not feel guilty if someone offered me a days work on the weekend for a bit of cash. I’ve just bought a house when I bought my flat my solicitor fees were £1200 my fees now are £3500 when I ask why so much £2250 stamp duty, tax for buying a house with the money I’ve already saved and been taxed on. I wouldn’t loose any sleep for doing a few days back handed.
When you add all that up & compare it to our ‘Traveller Friends’ who ‘ALLEGEDLY’ don’t pay council tax, car tax, diesel tax, insurance tax, savings tax, death tax, vat tax, gas tax, electric tax, water tax, ‘Window Tax’, ‘Moustache Tax’, ‘■■■■ Taking Tax’ & any other Bloody Tax you can think of !
Then they more than likely claim Benefits for their Little Sprogs & their Permanently Pregnant Females & their ‘Disabled Cousins’ (twice removed) and their ‘Motability Allowance’ & their Winter Warmth Allowance & their Free TV Licence & any other Bloody Allowance they can get their Dirty Little Paws on. ‘ALLEGEDLY’
Who’s the Biggest Idiots ?
There’s no wonder this [zb] is in so much Debt, that’ll never be paid off in my life time (if ever !)
My Late gaffer used to say that “Pretty soon there wont be enough folk in work to subsidise those who wont work” and I guess that we are already past that point? I finished work eleven years ago now to be a full time carer for my wife and believe me it is a fight to get any help at all financially so it does annoy me when I see these folk who have made a career of working the system when I have nearly forty years of graft behind me! Still, that’s life nowadays in Great Britain.
In the uk only 24% of the population earn above average wage £26,000
There are more over 60’s employed than under 25’s NO SURPRISE THERE
Only 50% of the population are in paid employment/self employed
Still, that’s life nowadays in Great Britain.