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Chesterfield

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  1. If anyone has avoided paying tax by illegal means and HMRC have not enforced the law upon these people, then yes, I do include them. Anyone who avoids tax rather than evades tax is not acting illegally, they are just navigating an over complex system to their advantage. I also believe the tax system is massively too complex. It benefits those who can afford accountants and advisors to assist in them paying as little tax as possible, while remaining fully legal, and I do think it unfair that those who dont have the benefit of these advisors get shafted due to an overly complex tax system. Im not taking my cars off the road to avoid paying tax thats supporting undesireables, as you twisted it, Im taking them off the road as I find the system unfair and overly harsh toward the motorist. Also, knowing three tenths of chuff all about me, I'd question whether you are in a position to accuse me of being pompus? Ive had days where Ive been to the cash point after pay day and still found it a few hundred overdrawn with the £500 limit looming. Ive also been jobless too, I was qualified to work in a senior IT position, yet I found myself stacking beans at Tesco for a few years to make ends meet. SUre, not as harsh a situation as some people find themselves in, but what I didn't do on those days was point the finger at those better off than me and saying how unfair the system was.
  2. Taxing fuel is not the fairest way to do it imho. Cutting back spending on people whos net input into the coffers is less than zero is where I would start. Ill probably sound like the son of thatcher and get bashed for it, but half the chav ridden estates couldnt give a toss how expensive fuel is. What do they care - they dont rely on their car to get them in front of the tv watching Jeremy Kyle every day. I consider myself very lucky to be in a position where I can grumble about the cost of fuel, but not actually "worry" about it too much, but I am taking steps to reduce my expenditure on a comodity that is massively over taxed as its an easy target as I simply dont agree with it. The motorist in general is hammered by tax as its an easy target. The VED ammounts being based on emmissions but not taking into account usage is just an example of the easy target at work - they want to make it look like its a nice "green" way of taxing, but its not. Ive pumped out less than 1 tenth the CO2 from the fezza & the 350z combined in one year than I have the Altea, but paid more than 3 times the tax. Im starting with the following: I have never sorned a vehicle before in my life, but starting this year I will be sorning both the Fezza and the Zed at the end of summer. Which means they can whistle dixie for 6 months worth of tax each year on those. I will only be taking the Zed to shows and not running it as a daily drive through the summer. I will only take the fezza to shows within a round trip radius of 150 miles, as thats just a joke on fuel. I will be getting rid of the Jag within the next month or so and probably swapping for something a lot more economical, probably a focus or something. Thats will be less tax and less fuel revenue. What is happening with fuel taxes is simply a carbon copy of what happened with general income taxes in the 60's. They got so high, those who could afford to, left. Leaving the government with zero income from those individuals. Thats exactly what Im doing with fuel tax. I can afford to stop running some of my cars, and putting less fuel in and taxing them less, so I will. Im looking to drop my expenditure on car tax and fuel costs by 50%. If everyone did the same, the HMRC finances would be in a state of crisis. I for one would rather them start looking at the money wasted on spongers, cheats and fraudsters taking billions from the economy, rather than those who actually contribute. But of course its much easier to hit the motorist and tax payer than it is to actually ensure the money they spend, is spent well.
  3. Vik, sending you a pm - we have a girl at our office who is into classic cars (currently has a mk1 and mk2 escort). Ill send you her email and she may be able to help.
  4. Looks like either news has been leaked, or there is a massive pump and dump on ORE right now - now over 23% up in day. Just get ready for the "we know of no reason RNS" and it may bomb. Ive still got a holding there, but chopped in 30% earlier - could have mad an extra 10% or thereabouts on what I did chop in, but I (for once) stuck to my own rules. If it goes even higher today I may chop another 30% out. I may be wrong, but with no news, this has pump/dump written all over it today.
  5. ORE is now up over 36% since I got in a week ago. Top sliced a fair bit of those just now. They are up well over 15% intra day - so there could be a huge retrace toward the end of the day or Monday morning. If they do, ill be getting back in to my original holding and bank the profit.
  6. I think contractors have been cut from many companies - and to be fair while there are a fair number of good contractors, there were also a lot that did the job only half as well as an internal member of staff could, but at three or four times the price! You should moot the idea of a reward scheme for reccomending an employee!
  7. Ill bet those savings weren't largely made from the top of the tree though A bit of shuffling the deckchairs to make the workers think the managers are in the same boat etc. Do you get a bonus if JLR take on someone who you reccomend? CSC used to do that, and it wasnt too shabby either, a couple of grand if I recall correctly.
  8. Im not surprised - I used to work for a company that only dished out management positions to people with degrees, and trainee managers were only open to post graduates. They ended up with a management team that didnt know its arse from its elbow, with no prior experience in managing people, and a workforce that despised working for people who had no interpersonal skills what so ever. It was the best way of introducing a "them and us" culture I'd ever seen. Going by the current candidate descriptions, Lord Alan Sugar would be rejected for a managers role at JLR based on his educational qualifications Do JLR do the same as most other corporates though and advertise these roles externally knowing full well that the job is already filled internally, but they do it to appear as if they are being "fair" to all. I know that went on all the time at other companies.
  9. Going by the website and job descriptions, I cant apply for any of the management positions as I dont have a degree or post graduate qualification. Back to the daily grind then.
  10. RMP is only available at present on the ASX (Australian exchange). You will have to enable your TDW account for dealing in overseas markets if you wish to take out a holding now. They are due to be listed on AIM in the UK some time in May at present estimate. It remains to be seen what effect the dilution will have when shares are listed on AIM, so it may be worth waiting until then, but if we see news from the projects they are invested in from either RMP or Range, then the price could go up before then. On the flip side, if they hit a duster on those projects, you could lose your shirt if you put it all on RMP. Gains are said to be very big with RMP should it take off, but also the risk is very high too.
  11. There are a few going for this sort of money now. There may also be a few being sold by people who couldnt really afford them in the first place. Buy these on the never never and have them as a "company" car and its not overly expensive (if you are using them as a company promotional tool). The change in company car tax rules may also have an effect... Compant car tax on one of these as a 40% tax payer is currently £11,200 a year. With the price when new £80k cap removed next year, that will go to over £130,000 Many of these mega expensive cars that are run as company cars will get hammered by the new tax rules unless they are run as personal cars. Do people ever wonder when you go to car shows how companies that are relatively small and sell modded parts for cars can have the likes of 458 italias and gallardos on their stands. Its not that difficult when they are on the never never. The new tax rules however will cause many a headache, as their tax bills for running them as company cars will shoot up massively overnight. And they wont find out until a year afterward if they havent got their eye on the ball Expect to see a few more of these cars coming onto the second hand market, as some of the smaller companies using them as flashy promotional cars crap themselves when the P11Ds get updated.
  12. Some topics are just locked, others are deleted (well, moved to an invisible area incase they need to be brought back due to deletion errors etc). Locking is usually undertaken to prevent threads spiraling downward into outright slanging matches, or as a mark of respect for the OP, etc. Deletions take place for resons such as legality of the posting (posting links to illegal software/pornography etc), or on rare occasions threads which just show the site/club in a very negative manner and threads which may cause offence if read, even if now locked. Thats what is usually done, but of course each locking/deletion is undertaken by an individual mod/admin and an interpretation of which is the best course of action for that individual thread. There is no checklist or flowchart which dictates what happens to individual threads. Hope that helps
  13. ORE has had a retrace last couple of days. Still above the level I got in at, but its back from the 25% gains of earlier, to now around 5-8%. Possibly still a good time for those - gold in the mines, accessible, just waiting news on levels. As always do your own research, but im in for a little ammount on these. Largest holdings for me are RRL and RMP. RMP has retraced slightly too, but will be looking to top slice with any significant move and shift some of the profit over onto the punts, banking the rest.
  14. The law relates to having cars insured. It needs to be insured if its not sorned, whether on road or not. So you cant have a car just sat on the drive with no sorn and no insurance - it needs one of those two things. Tax is the same rules as always has been, either its taxed or its sorned.
  15. While I agree that posts should not be contributed to after a lock, unless the post is adding any further usefull information to the closed topic, it is a quirk of the software that the "locked" icon does not appear to mods or admin when a topic is locked, the fast reply button remains active. Sometimes this does allow us to post accidentally by clicking this button before reading the last post and realising that the thread is actually locked. Im not saying this happens in all cases, and Im sure that I will have replied after a topic is locked before now, but this is one possible reason for it happening.
  16. Pulled out of CRND a week or so ago. All this ramping and talk of "positive meetings" seemed like smoke screens to me. I stuck the money in a couple of others THR and ORE. Both have done me well in the last week or so. A bit of shaking going on now, but still nice solid gains for the last week. News on SOU hopefully some time soon, and RRL could do with some decent RNS too. If its good news on the sites in which RMP have a holding too, then things could be looking up all round. Im wondering just how much the oil explorer shares are being underpinned by very high oil prices at present. If they make big finds at a time when oil is trading 15% up, then theoretically the valuation of the company will be 15% higher. Also, existing finds could at present be valued at 15% higher than a few weeks ago due to the oil price, so Im taking the rises of the past few weeks with a pinch of salt until there is hard evidence that there is more oil out there. Captain Nelson has also been writing about SOU quite positively, there is currently a drop due to a few selling out their short term profits, but it could be a good time for them. Im thinking of topping up at the current low, but I promissed myself I wouldnt put any more funds into shares. hmmm.
  17. IM actually sat here crying at that! When the picture of the pipette came up, I swear I nearly wet myself :lol:
  18. If its going to be purple, Id go to the local shop, buy a dairy milk bar, unwrap it, have myself a nice chocolatey treat, then take the shiny purple wrapper to the body shop and have them match that. The cadburys purple, is fantastic. I nice deep metalic version of that would be fantastic.
  19. I had to laugh on iii today, someone had been tracking a ship trying to follow the drill rig. All excited watching it make its way across the channel etc - turned out they were tracking a tanker
  20. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who's the daddy then? Pity I chickened out of buying at 8:05 when they had gone up 4% since opening and I thought, "nah - I'll buy them during the lunch-time lull" and they'd gone up 20%. You and me both - I set a buy at 8.25 overnight, that failed, and set my next point ay 8.92 after they had gone way past 9. The spreads were massive most of the day, plenty of sells coming through all day long at as low as 8.76, but the buy never dipped below 9. The spread at close was 8.5 - 9.5. If the long term predictions come true, then 9p is still a great entry price, but thats about 50% increase already missed from the 6 range. May let that one go
  21. Im going to re-evaluate the above after doing a bit of research and seeing the latest news for CNR - perhaps a buy in of 8.25 was quite unrealistic, though under 9 may still be possible today - what are peoples thoughts on this, are we seeing a bit of ramping today which is pushing the increase on the back of the news higher than it should be, or is this share still well undervalued at 9/9.5 p? Interested to hear your views.
  22. CNR opened this morning just above my order price, and has continued to rise. It may still be possible to jump aboard now, but the rapid rise this morning could also be matched by a few people taking the profits of the last couple of days and send it back below my entry price. Im not going to run after this one, if it comes back down to my entry point of 8.25 then fine. As its now risen to about 9.5 this morning already, this may not be likely, but Im not going to chase this boat - if Ive missed it Ive missed it. RMP look good - the gains in the last few days have been great, but while the upside for RMP may be greater with RMP if the projects they are in with RRL are fruitful - the downside coould be a lot worse if they hit dusters on those project than with RRL.
  23. OK Ill bite - why were the police trying to smash your door in?
  24. Yet the share price is held back. Given the prospects, RRL still represents good value at around the 20p level at present imho. It may not be the quick ten bagger that it previously was, but there is a lot of talk about 30-35p in the not too distant future. There are announcements to come Tuesday as a RRL are speaking at a conference then, so this is when we may see some further news.
  25. Ive noticed that some places are showing SOU closing at 4.88, whereas others show LSE closing of 5.475 - so, Ive put a cheeky order in for 4.9 to see if I can sneak it in right at the start of play before the catchup to 5.475. SOU seem to have weathered the ramping/derapming storm of the last couple of days and the large corporate sell of of their holding - so the substance underneath seems to be supporting it at present.
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