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21-06-21, 01:44 PM | #9751 |
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Tell them it should be ten times as much.
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21-06-21, 02:29 PM | #9752 |
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
And if they make it 10 times more, you'll share it with them 50-50
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21-06-21, 04:20 PM | #9753 |
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before i start i regard Fife council as one of the best councils in Scotland if not the UK.
but... trying to get an appointment to see a customer representative is a fekin nightmare. they tell you to do everything online.. ok.. go to book an appointment at my local office only to have a prompt to sign up to mygov.scot... ermm no. so i phone up and wait 45min as everyone is doing the same. get through and make an appointment without having to register to mygov.scot.. figure that out. as far as their website is concerned all their local offices are open with opening times and no mention of having to book an appointment.... only found that out when i went round to the local office. |
21-06-21, 11:09 PM | #9754 | |
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22-06-21, 09:33 AM | #9755 | |
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i could be wrong... i usually am. |
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22-06-21, 10:23 AM | #9756 | |
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I just included the annuity as income and paid the taxes due. There was further confusion (for me) because my April USA Social security was late - it arrived on the 6th April instead of the 3rd but I included it in last year's tax year. What became clear on my second call to HMRC (hold time 25 mins) is that the people manning the phones aren't well versed in our tax system either. It costs $36000/hr to fly an F35 (says Lockheed) so my tax due has paid for about 2.3 minutes of flight time, not sure if that includes a pilot.
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24-06-21, 06:27 PM | #9757 | |
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If it doesn't compute, they don't know, they aren't trained Tax Officers. In the olden days, you could visit your local tax office, whether it was Income or VAT. But some bright spark thought it better to centralise everything and put it online.
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24-06-21, 08:49 PM | #9758 |
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Collected my new car this morning, within 20mins it was nearly written off 3 times, not by my doing..
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24-06-21, 09:01 PM | #9759 |
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Bloody hell Chris! You'll be lucky to make it through the week without it being trashed at that rate!
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24-06-21, 09:05 PM | #9760 |
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I used much more colourful language than that..
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