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Takeaway mixers for busmen

Flyingsnowball

Car broke down this morning and had to get a bus. Was chatting to the bus man I kind of know through a friend, he said he was tired he was delivering pizzas at night to get a few quid together to do an attic conversion.
I asked how it worked being self employed delivering the pizza and prsi driving the bus and he looked at me like I’d ten heads.
He said the takeaway tell you, you are self employed but don’t care and he’s not going to go filling out forms to tell people he’s not paying enough tax.

Apparantly up and down the country this goes on in plain sight of all and sundry yet if I was to change a sink and the taxman got wind of it I’d be fined.

Why is this allowed go on. These are people in good cars, creaming tax free overtime in plain sight not kids making pocket money.

Baffling, you can even tip your delivery driver through an app now the wife said.

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Cookie_Monster

are there not max driving limits imposed on commercial and bus drivers? So this guy is clearly putting everyone in danger by being behind the wheel far longer than is safe, never mind scamming the revenue.

Flyingsnowball

Ayden Cool Utensil wrote: »

The last plumber who did work for me was driving a 182 crewcab with company branding of one of the big building firms, doesn’t stop him doing a cash in hand nixer on the side.

Many of the tradesman id be referring to are off the walls busy, of course they put a percentage of work through the books or they put all contractor work for a big builder through the books but if you aren’t doing a bit of cash in hand work you are the only plumber in the country not doing it.

Nonsense. I bet you don’t even own a house to have a plumber in.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Newsflash: People do jobs for cash in hand to save having to pay tax. It’s not a new thing and has probably been going on since taxes were invented.

In other news I heard that there are people who are on the dole and alsonwitking on the side for cash in hand so that those nasty bastards at the dole office don’t get to know about it.

enricoh

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Nonsense. I bet you don’t even own a house to have a plumber in.

Haha, nonsense that plumbers are off the wall busy? God bless the Internet, some people dont have to deal with the real world anymore!!

Flyingsnowball

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Newsflash: People do jobs for cash in hand to save having to pay tax. It’s not a new thing and has probably been going on since taxes were invented.

In other news I heard that there are people who are on the dole and alsonwitking on the side for cash in hand so that those nasty bastards at the dole office don’t get to know about it.

But these people are parked outside the chipper curry shop and pizza place every night. Revenue just has to go and take a few pictures. Job done. Industry revolutionized.

Flyingsnowball

enricoh wrote: »

Haha, nonsense that plumbers are off the wall busy? God bless the Internet, some people dont have to deal with the real world anymore!!

I’m hardly posting here most evenings with two stilsons in my hand.

ED E

All it would take is an email to his insurer and he'd have a cancelled policy and probably lose his bus driving job too. Risky business.

(if he's not paying tax he's not paying commercial ins)

Stoner

Only people I ever saw holding down a job and taking on takeaway deliveries were stuck for money, saving for a house, had a few young kids etc

I wouldn't begrudge them TBH. I understand where you are coming from, but it's a lot of extra hours that they take on.

I'd also hate to think that a tip was taxed.

[Deleted User]

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

are there not max driving limits imposed on commercial and bus drivers? So this guy is clearly putting everyone in danger by being behind the wheel far longer than is safe, never mind scamming the revenue.

The limits are only for commercial driving of certain vehicles, they can only drive their truck/bus for a certain number of hours today but they could drive 12 hours straight in their private car and start straight into a shift in the truck/bus after.

The person the op is taking about would be doing this all under the table so it doesn’t count. In any case driving a car commercially doesn’t count either, for instance delivery drivers (dhl etc) don’t have driving limits nor do sales reps etc.

scamalert

ED E wrote: »

All it would take is an email to his insurer and he'd have a cancelled policy and probably lose his bus driving job too. Risky business.

(if he's not paying tax he's not paying commercial ins)

all it would take to say i was getting takeaway, case closed :rolleyes:

Flyingsnowball

Stoner wrote: »

Only people I ever saw holding down a job and taking on takeaway deliveries were stuck for money, saving for a house, had a few young kids etc

I wouldn't begrudge them TBH. I understand where you are coming from, but it's a lot of extra hours that they take on.

I'd also hate to think that a tip was taxed.

Yeah I was also thinking of telling my boss to pay me into the hand because I’d like to buy a house with my tax money. He could probably also buy a house with the tax and insurance money he pays on me too.

GinAndBitter

Fair play to him.

mikemac2

People on the dole - several threads a week

Hard working man holding down two jobs - also gets a thread

Seems people are either working too little or too much for some

[Deleted User]

ED E wrote: »

All it would take is an email to his insurer and he'd have a cancelled policy and probably lose his bus driving job too. Risky business.

(if he's not paying tax he's not paying commercial ins)

Do you really think an insurer can cancel a policy like that without an ounce of proof or any reason to believe the person reporting it. They likely not even engage with the person reporting for gdpr reasons.

Plumbthedepths

Flyingsnowball wrote:

Baffling, you can even tip your delivery driver through an app now the wife said.

You seem very young to be married.

Plumbthedepths

Flyingsnowball wrote:

For every arse scratcher in a little van there 3 or 4 paye plumbers building your hotels, hospitals,, swimming pools, country clubs and cinemas.

Plumbers are builders?

Flyingsnowball

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Plumbers are builders?

Suppose they are.

dxhound2005

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Suppose they are.

Did you get the car fixed?

Flyingsnowball

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Did you get the car fixed?

Nah drove it into the ground. Relieved it’s gone.

dxhound2005

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Nah drove it into the ground. Relieved it’s gone.

That's a shame. I know a man who could have fixed it for you. His usual occupation is airline pilot, but he does a bit of car mechanic stuff out the back.

Flyingsnowball

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That's a shame. I know a man who could have fixed it for you. His usual occupation is airline pilot, but he does a bit of car mechanic stuff out the back.

Out the back of his airplane?

Dakotabigone

Only a fool is 100% tax compliant.

dxhound2005

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Out the back of his airplane?

He doesn't own the aeroplanes.

Flyingsnowball

dxhound2005 wrote: »

He doesn't own the aeroplanes.

He is doing car nixers out the back of his bosses airplane?

You must think I was born yesterday.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Only if your bus driver friend delivers the takeaways in the bus.

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Out the back of his airplane?

punisher5112

What's a busmen

Flyingsnowball

punisher5112 wrote: »

What's a busmen

A collective of busmans.

Known as a union of busmen because whenever you see more than two of them together they are on strike demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
Huge spinning toilet.

punisher5112

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

A collective of busmans.

Known as a union of busmen because whenever you see more than two of them together they are on strike demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
Huge spinning toilet.

Ah great ..... They are a great bunch of lads

Yer Da sells Avon

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

are there not max driving limits imposed on commercial and bus drivers? So this guy is clearly putting everyone in danger by being behind the wheel far longer than is safe, never mind scamming the revenue.

I work as a bus driver and - for safety reasons - I am contractually forbidden from doing any paid work elsewhere. Driving a 12 metre-long vehicle for 10 hours a day is tiring enough already.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

...demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
Huge spinning toilet.

Here we go again...….rinse and repeat.

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