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Takeaway mixers for busmen

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    #32
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,485 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #33
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #34
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #35
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭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!!


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    #36
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #37
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #38
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭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)


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    #39
    Stoner
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    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.


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #41
    scamalert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭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:


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    #42
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #43
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    Fair play to him.


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    #44
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭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 :confused:


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #46
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #47
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭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?


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    #48
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Plumbers are builders?

    Suppose they are.


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    #49
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,811 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Suppose they are.

    Did you get the car fixed?


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    #50
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Did you get the car fixed?

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


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    #51
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,811 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #52
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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?


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    #53
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Only a fool is 100% tax compliant.


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    #54
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,811 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Out the back of his airplane?

    He doesn't own the aeroplanes.


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    #55
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #56
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Only if your bus driver friend delivers the takeaways in the bus.
    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Out the back of his airplane?


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    #57
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    What's a busmen


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    #58
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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    #59
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #60
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭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.


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    #61
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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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