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Takeaway mixers for busmen

  • 12-02-2019 7:23pm
    #1
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭


    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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  • #2
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Why would you put your takeaway in a mixer? To drink it through a straw? Is it just bus drivers who eat this way?


  • #3
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,289 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Why would you change a sink? That's not gonna fix your car


  • #4
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Is there a sink on the bus ?


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Plenty of plumbers and other trades doing nixers with no tax paid.


  • #6
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,130 ✭✭✭screamer


    What’s worse is takeaways working in cash only basis....wonder how much the tax man is getting there.....


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  • #7
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    Is there a pizza in the sink?


  • #8
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    Is there a pizza in the sink?


  • #9
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    A bus seems impractical for delivering pizzas. No way could you get a bus turned in my estate.


  • #10
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I thought the OP was complaining about pubs handing out little bottles of coke or maybe tonic water to busdrivers.

    Or is 'takeaway mixer' a new name for a 3 in 1?


  • #11
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Troy Slow Swindler wrote: »
    Plenty of plumbers and other trades doing nixers with no tax paid.

    long may it last


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Still waters wrote: »
    long may it last

    I'm not complaining either.


  • #13
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Still waters wrote: »
    long may it last

    And they're the first to give out about someone on the dole.


  • #14
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Why would you put your takeaway in a mixer? To drink it through a straw? Is it just bus drivers who eat this way?

    After the bus driver gets wind of this thread, op will be drinking all his meals through a straw :pac:


  • #15
    zapitastas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭zapitastas


    The bigger issue are the fat lazy people ordering take aways and can't even be bothered to leave the house to get them. Might be a market there for a motorised sofa that could bring the person out to the front door to collect the food


  • #16
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Still waters wrote: »
    long may it last

    Apt name for a mixer and a plumber.


  • #17
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    sugarman wrote: »
    Your head will probably blow to know he needs a commercial insurance policy for doing deliveries too, which is doubtful going by your OP :P

    Looks like the OP has 10 heads so that could be carnage


  • #18
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,198 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    So rather than deal with loan sharks or high interest loans, he took a second part time job in the evening to pay for something in the house long term. Fair play to him.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • #19
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    zapitastas wrote: »
    The bigger issue are the fat lazy people ordering take aways and can't even be bothered to leave the house to get them. Might be a market there for a motorised sofa that could bring the person out to the front door to collect the food

    I've waited all my life for this.

    Do you mean a "Mofa" ?


  • #20
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    So rather than deal with loan sharks or high interest loans, he took a second part time job in the evening to pay for something in the house long term. Fair play to him.

    If somebody is going to a loan shark to do up the house they probably deserve what they get or shouldn’t be allowed out.
    The commercial car insurance never dawned on me but at least that doesn’t really affect the collective tax pile.


  • #21
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,871 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Domino's drivers pay tax. They are also one of the few takeaways where their drivers have proper commercial car insurance.


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  • #22
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Good on him. It is his Labour in his spare time, outside of his regular hours and he should be rewarded for it.

    The state takes in roughly 50bn from taxes. 1bn goes straight back out in foreign aid and another 5.5bn gets doled out to their buddy NGOs and their sham salaries. Then they want some guys doing a few extra hours a week doing deliveries, even though they already pay car & Road tax and obscene fees in insurance to pay even more tax? Get out of town


  • #23
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    corner of hells wrote: »
    I've waited all my life for this.

    Do you mean a "Mofa" ?


    Wot's a Mofa :confused:


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  • #24
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    Wot's a Mofa :confused:


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    A cross between a MOtorised scooter and soFA.

    A MOFA .


  • #25
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Bus wankeresres


  • #26
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Good on him. It is his Labour in his spare time, outside of his regular hours and he should be rewarded for it.

    The state takes in roughly 50bn from taxes. 1bn goes straight back out in foreign aid and another 5.5bn gets doled out to their buddy NGOs and their sham salaries.

    They are not declaring 50 euro a night or so in taxes because they have already hit their tax credits. 3 of them on a takeaway. A takeaway on nearly every street corner in Ireland.

    That could pay for the hospital.

    This isn’t some poor unfortunate on the dole and fixing his neighbors toilet for a few cans.


  • #27
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    To be honest he is mad doing delivery work but maybe needs a break from all the crapbonbthe bus.


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    The post might make some sense if the op was a paye worker as you can’t really get cash in hand but his post suggests he is a plumber so it makes zero sense. I couldn’t tell you the last time I didn’t pay a tradesman cash in hand and I’m not taking small jobs either.

    Anytime I get a tradesman over after he prices it I ask “what’s the cash price” and I’ve yet to not get a nice discount.


  • #29
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    zapitastas wrote: »
    The bigger issue are the fat lazy people ordering take aways and can't even be bothered to leave the house to get them. Might be a market there for a motorised sofa that could bring the person out to the front door to collect the food




  • #30
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Ayden Cool Utensil wrote: »
    The post might make some sense if the op was a paye worker as you can’t really get cash in hand but his post suggests he is a plumber so it makes zero sense. I couldn’t tell you the last time I didn’t pay a tradesman cash in hand and I’m not taking small jobs either.

    Anytime I get a tradesman over after he prices it I ask “what’s the cash price” and I’ve yet to not get a nice discount.

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


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    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.

    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.


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