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Depends what is used as a "loophole". Take away the ability for people to be paid in dividends which can effectively reduce your tax from 50% down to 37 ish and you will all but kill off expansion in small busineses as the owners of these use money from the business to top their earnings back up. However when you are talking about a corporate entity that is clearly taking millions from UK residents for goods, and then shipping that money out of the country by using some offshore licensing rubbish, then thats a different matter.

Its almost as if we have psychic's on here.... http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/57608-game-over/#entry853599 It certainly is annoying that we can't close loopholes for companies that trade within the UK but avoid tax using offshore companies or bullsh*t "trademark royalties" to offshore elements. Our 12 employee company has a larger corporation tax bill than Facebook. Starbucks has paid zero due to clever shifting of income offshore too. Yet as I take a large proportion of my income in dividends, Im a tax doger just like them...

Had a new laptop for the office arrive with it on. For a corporate environment its absolutely horrible. The amount of time it would take for users to get used to the new desktop would be ridiculous. I dont envy the IT departments of large corporates rolling this out. The lost worktime from staff as they wade through trying to find things would cost a fortune. First thing I did after trying it for a while was format the HDD and stick windows 7 pro back on. If only it was as easy as that though with the way Win 8 ties itself into bios and not allowing "legacy" software to be installed. I would be surprised if Microsoft didnt deploy a "business" edition which has the daft tablet oriented stuff removed and a standard start bar installed.

In no desperate rush to sell mine, but there will be an ad going on here shortly. I dont use it, with having Lewis I wont be using it for some time, and its a waste of money insuring it each year. Ill put a full ad up soon, but Im not expecting a flood of offers given the current market. The price of these cars is not that high, but cost of insuring and fueling them rules out a lot of people.

Currently use xbmc myself for all media, using the android app on the phone also allows you to select which tv set etc you want to stream the media to. Start watching a movie downstairs, pause, and then pick up at the same point upstairs etc.. I use QNAP nas devices, haven't had any problems. Though there are probably better/cheaper devices available now, I haven't looked recently.

Are you confusing the exchange with the cabinet? I'm guessing that's it for your area, but it will be listed as being infinity enabled according to BT. Its the great big con. They list an area as being enabled, yet only half the people in that area can actually get it.

Our villages exchange was on the latest list published by BT as being scheduled for being upgraded to infinity in 2013. I enquired with BT whether the specific cabinet that serves our street would be upgraded. No surprise to find that BT class our cabinet as "not commercially viable". They will happily enable the cabinets for the concrete jungle part of the village where they can all sit at home all day watching Jezza Kyle streaming in HD, while those of us that want it so it would enable more efficient home working, go to work and pay thousands out so those in the concrete jungle can use the money they get, for infinity... I am even happy to fork out the 2-3k for FTTP on demand, but as our cabinet isn't commercially viable, I'll be out in the cold for a while. Imagine my smiley face when a local phone box was all dressed up recently to announce "fibre broadband coming here soon" or words to that effect. Here's just how local that phone box is...

Pricing on the jag f-type is ridiculously high. Porker competition is more reasonably priced, and JTS almost as if its competing with jaguars own xk. Watch the residuals on these, I reckon with the f-type they will have managed to develop a car that depreciates even faster than the xj, which itself did a fantastic job of topping how fast the range rover vogues depreciate. I'll take a guess at near 50% drop in 12 months once they are established. First ones off the line may fair better, but not by much.

There's a few things need running on the database, there should be scheduled maintenance taking place on it regularly to keep things running smooth, but its not been run of late. Also the server has been filling up with a fair few GB of logs that need some clearing out.

Apologies. A service failed on server and at the time I went to restart it, the host had a raid failure. It wouldn't be Christmas unless we had a few hours outage on the forum, happens every year

Should be sorted now.

Sorry to hear this. My condolences to his family and friends.

Says Ferraris walking talking bill board. I agree though although from what I've seen and read its do powerful, nimble and light. I still think the f430 is better looking. 430 rear is better looking, but 458 side and front profile are much better than the 430 imho.

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Will try and make time to address these issues tomorrow. Pretty sure we can set reo group to add more than the 6 members to a pm.

Do we have figures for this? Would be nice to have, certainly could do well to back up a claim. Second to last paragraph from North Yorkshire Police: http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4193 This was one of many articles that can be found with a few minutes of using google, which show that drivers who attend speed awareness courses are LESS likely to reoffend in future than those who have points. Meaning Admiral are completely ignoring this research from the police. I have one car left in our house insured with Admiral, expires December - will not be renewing with them on principal due to this policy of theirs.

Insurers raising premiums for drivers attending speed awareness courses, negates the entire point of the course from an insurance view. The key difference between a driver that takes points between drivers that attends a course is that the driver attending the course should in theory be LESS likely to speed in the future. After all that is the aim of the course from the police's view. If insurance companies are treating these two people the same, they are effectively saying the courses are useless and ineffective. A bit of a kick in the teeth for all safety camera partnerships etc. Lets look at it this way... If all insurance companies did this, how many people would bother paying more money to attend a course for several hours instead of just taking the points and £60 fine? Probably none. Therefore nobody will be better educated on speed, and the fines and subsequent points only become a deterrent to those who can't easily afford premium increases.

I think there should be a multiple choice question of some sort relating to each party standing, and in order for your vote to count you need to show some level of understanding of what it is your chosen party are standing for.

With respect, councilors haven't got a clue. Nor have half the political candidates standing in these elections. Id far rather trus somebody that has been involved with police work for some time than any politician in the role. Some of the propoganda that is being spewed by many candidates and parties is just ridiculous imho, and treats voters like sheep.

As it would be statute barred after 6 years, Id advise the council they can have the £25 or, alternatively, shove the lot up their backside.

Only with stuff his dad wants to play with

It wasnt an impluse - I had been waiting for the auction, registered beforehand to bid online, set time aside to sit and wait for the lot number to come round, set myself a strict budget. Then blew it and got carried away in the moment

Surely a trip to Wimbledon is in order just for the photo opportunity Probably. I got it for my son in years to come, but I think Ill probably put it on a car before then. Cost a bloody fortune, but my heart was ruling my head when I had visions of putting it on my sons car.

Sadly BA11 BAG and BA11 GAG had both gone from the dvla site at the time I bought some, otherwise I would have been quite tempted. Although BA11 NOB is still available.