Jonboy

Not Brexit directly but because as an online marketplace eBay now have a legal obligation to do so, unless the seller has proved to them that they have a uk VAT registration and are charging VAT accordingly. It is HMRC finally catching up on all these small consignments passing through customs with false declarations and collecting the Import VAT that is due at source rather than trying to catch it at the border (The EU have similar measures coming in from July....).

The other joy of the uk of course is that it is controlled by the district council, so even here in the single county of Oxfordshire we have five councils and four different sets of rules/bin combinations (2 of the councils have a shared contract). this even goes down to the level of what materials are accepted for recycling.....

Parcels seem to getting through very quickly, letters and magazines seem to be a separate round with only a single delivery since new year here.

quietly go back to the 2019 spec now no-ones looking???

Is it not a bit cheeky to ask about warranty’s when you believe up front before purchasing that your proposed installation could kill it???

the expression bread and circuses comes to mind....

Just a minor rivet, my wife has been building the ventilators (a more complex version for icu) for the last 6 years here in Oxfordshire, some staff there for 40 years plus.....most were made for export. the big change is that they were never designed for mass production with a lot of bits made/finished by hand, so the government backed scale up to build 13500 in 14 weeks was very impressive.

Which model of tablet do you have as this will determine which software you have available? Are you looking to design your own or print out photos of real signs, or downloadable kits? Have you tried printing anything out to ensure you are happy with the quality and basic print process? If not it may be worth using the scale scenes free sample or similar as a test piece: https://scalescenes.com/test-print/ https://scalescenes.com/product/r024-weighbridge-or-coal-office/

I was frustrated about the prospect of this lockdown, but at the moment am coping better. In part this is because I have made a conscious effort to stop doom scrolling (instead of looking at such threads on several forums for hours a day, I have reduced it to just the rmweb threads, such as this one and panic buying). I have also put some serious thought into why working from home was becoming a real frustration and tried some changes to start to improve it, such as keeping a hard copy page to view diary to keep a log of the days larger tasks accomplished, and reminders going forward in place of yet more electronic nagging.... Now I just need to get back onto a regular exercise routine rather than sporadic as at the moment, and I hope I am sorted.

As I mentioned at the start of the thread I am not seeing the issue on my iPad and have probably spent 3 or 4 hours on rmweb over the weekend (I tend to spend10-20 minutes at a time on here, but make many visits over the day). I normally access it through the frequently visited websites part of safari that goes stray to view new content, and never through a saved link or from an email link in case that differs from you?

I do wonder how much of it is simply most people trying to get out in daylight hours, the road onto our estate is behind us and traffic drops off faster than normal as darkness comes round.

It’s a strange discussion. I live with only my wife in a small flat. I work from home and have only attended the office once since lockdown one (in August). My wife works making COVID-relevant medical equipment, so cannot work from home. We are following all the rules regarding staying at home, with occasional trips locally for exercise, and I am only shopping for food once a week alone. How can it realistically get any tighter for us?

I have noted quite a few mismatches (unrelated to this thread) in recent years on Companies House where some registrations have directors middle names, some initials and others don’t. This means the other directorships info is often not accurate.

Mostly they just use them to nip into the toilet and showers. They often have a lot of their own food and gas cookers or microwaves bought in from their home Countries in their cabs or the side lockers. Most of the time they are into the uk and back out within two to three days depending on where the goods are destined and any back load. This one is obsessively organised compared to most but similar https://uk.news.yahoo.com/m20-lorry-driver-picnic-mass-testing-ease-congestions-084123475.html

The real joke about is the overseas lorry drivers never normally come into “close contact” with anyone. At best it’s normally a 1 minute contact whilst they hand the paperwork over and you find somewhere flat to sign it. If they are making a large drop they may ask to use the toilet at a typical warehouse, but otherwise prefer to sit in their cabs in my experience (sometimes you get a keen one moving pallets in the trailer whilst you are unloading with a forklift but even that is mostly reasonably distanced).

Something to bear in mind is that there were thresholds in place before for distance selling to each EU country. This meant if a uk supplier sold EUR 100,000 to German consumers (note consumers not VAT registered businesses) they would need to register for VAT in Germany and make sales at the German VAT rate, paid to Germany. In theory all this is does is lower the threshold across the board, and move the consumption tax that is VAT to the place is it being consumed...the excuse is that technology should make it easier to manage the complexity...

Ahhhh but you can buy whilst drunk which I suspect is in the traders favour....

Sadly all such eu directives/legislation were signed into uk law and will remain so unless repealed. the one that confuses me is this craze of legitimate interest cookies on news sites. How can any company I haven’t heard of, and don’t know what they do claim to have a legitimate interest in tracking me....

I am going through fun and games at the moment with transactions that went through in the last couple of days before work closed for Xmas break....the carriers wouldn’t collect them due to the ports closure then, and now won’t take them unless the documents are correct for the post brexit processes....

I don’t have an issue with rmweb, but my iPad has recently started resetting the preferences on a lot more regular basis for many sites, particularly news sites but also the met office, bbc etc. Are you using the default safari browser?

I agree......It would be much simpler if we just had 55% flat rate of tax on income and got rid of all these different taxes

the hmrc is always generous compared to real life values at the start of the month. As a comparison at one point a while back the hmrc euro rate was 1.17, the best market rate I could secure for 10,000ish euros was around 1.14 and credit cards were around 1.10 or below... the only time the hmrc policy catches you out is if there are huge swings in the market rates, such as March last year when lockdown was announced and I had a lot of imports in transit.

Except as we are not in a common market The German supplier should not be charging you German VAT any more if the goods are being shipped as its a export outside the EU.

For business to consumer sales: last week the eu retailers simply charged VAT at their country’s normal rate and shipped the goods to you(unless trade hit a large threshold with an individual eu country). this week they are expected to register for uk VAT and charge uk rate, making a payment once a month or quarter of all such vat collected and various compliance reporting . In addition they will need extra admin processes to prove to the carriers of the goods this has done to ensure the goods go through customs. (business to business sales are a whole different set of rules). the eu retailers are making the point that to expect them to register for tax and compliance outside their own territory is unreasonable, particularly if other country’s start trying the same thing (Australia tried it a few years back and I don’t think it stuck....).

no, you pay it to eBay, the seller then prints out the address label from eBay which will include a unique qr style barcode. On arrival in the uk the Royal Mail scan the qr code to authenticate and send it on its merry way.