TamDenholm
We (the UK) already have a great firewall. Try to access thepiratebay.org or other pirate sites, or other sites that the UK gov deems inappropriate (CP obviously), etc. Its just a case of encroaching that same system just a little further, step by step.
People only tend to fight back when large sweeping one-off changes come in. If you consistently and repeatedly wear the other side down, you eventually get your way. How many times did the house of commons vote on brexit? How many times did the US congress vote on Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker? Yeah, as long as you just keep on and on about it, you get your way.
I terms of the UK, realistically its still just a curtousy, but employers put it in because employees often thinnk that they have to adhere to it, they don't. If in the scenario the employee doesnt work the notice period and just immediately leaves, the employer technically could take them to civil court, make a case that they need them to finish their notice period, and the court could theoretically grant them that due to the employee's breach of contract. But i'd imagine thats almost never happened (just guessing), because that would take considerable time, effort and money to do that, and its less hassle just to let them go.
So yeah, its put in because employers can, and employees often incorrectly think they're beholden to it and comply anyway.
However, if you've ran the company in previous years, even if you've taken a year off and had 0 incoming revenue, you may have other taxes to pay. There wouldnt be any corporation tax as theres no profit, but you may have some very small expenses like bank fees, maintenance of servers, subscriptions, etc that might be left over. So you wouldnt be dormant, you'd be a loss making company, but still active.
If you had a big chunk of money in the biz bank account and still paid yourself, there would be taxes on that, both on the company and personal side depending on how you paid yourself.
I wouldnt recommend setting up a Ltd company to literally do nothing with it though, 0 revenue and 0 expenses, you're not really benefitting for any reason.
It costs £12 and takes about 20min to create. Then you get a bank account with startling/monzo which is very simple (easier than high st banks). All tax is done online which again is fairly simple. Sign up for freeagent (or another accounting package) and just keep on top of your accounts. When it comes to filing your annual accounts and confirmation statement, again its all incredibly simple and can be done yourself without the need for an accountant as you'll qualify for mico-entity accounts and freeagent handles it for you. Or you can pay roughly £1200-£1500/yr to an accountant and have them do it for you.
Its honestly not hard at all, happy to answer anyones questions on the matter.
Rule applies here, work on yourself so that you're a better person to be with in a relationship. Work on physical health, good diet, mental wellbeing, work through any past traumas or bad experiences (perhaps with a mental health professional) so you're not carring baggage to future relationships, work on impulse control, emotional control and pretty much the most important one above all others, communication skills.
These things basically apply to all relationships, romantic, professional, friendships, family, etc and are generally good things to work on for your own happiness and wellbeing too.
Try to talk to parents of older children and ask for their advice, try to also talk to parents that are outwith your own friends/culture circle too. Even if they've raised their kids in a wildly different way to how you have, their knowledge helps you decide how you want to parent, even if its the opposite of them.
Have 2 dishwashers. Make sure all the dishes and cutlery you own fits in them. Fill one dishwasher with the dirty dishes, turn it on and onces its done, just leave the clean dishes in there, thats where they live now, thats the storage solution for them. As you use the clean dishes, load them into the other dishwasher until done, repeat the cycle.
This does scream like a solution from a single guy with too much money, but honestly, i'd do it if my kitchen wasn't tiny.
I would assume the title is based on merit and ability, not X number of years regardless of how good or not they are.
You say you’re a startup, that would assume you’re trying to create and offer a product or service from your company for the market, that’s a business. You say your income is currently from consulting, I would assume that means you’re offering a service to one or more clients, I don’t know the details but if you’re offering that consulting service like a business then you’re not a disguised employee.
If however you are working for a company, using their equipment, in their workplace, on their timetable, taking holidays when they say so, where you cannot substitute yourself with someone else and you don’t have any other clients and it’s essentially a permanent arrangement, then yeah, it’s possible you are falling foul of the IR35 law and you should speak to an expert on the subject.
Lots of laws are like this, for instance the piracy warnings that they used to put at the start of DVD's that only punished lawful users cuz if your pirated it, the warnings would be cut out. Theres many more examples like this.
The IR35 law was supposed to stop them losing tax revenue, and to be honest i even agree with the overall law, they just executed it incorrectly. They put the responsiblity on the company offering the contract, when it should be on the person applying for the contract that has the responsibility to show they're a business and not a disguised employee.
The better way to do it in my opinion is to empower HMRC with more resources to question contractors and show that they are actual businesses and not tax dodging employees.
The responsiblity should be on the person to argue with HMRC that they are a business and for those legitimately operating as such, then its not at all difficult.
Excellent about page.
Sorry to correct you, but the rule is that people are allowed to opt-in to tracking. This fundamental misunderstanding is kinda the problem...
The venn diagram of tech skills and a non-tech business is where the opportunities are. This applies to many other unrelated skills.
However, for a player like me, it’s worth me operating in the 500k to 25mil range and buying businesses there because, first off I’m not a millionaire, and second, I can assemble a group of related small businesses which collectively would make 25 million which I can then sell to private equity for a larger multiple than I bought them for.
My point being, is there a way to create some kind of collective of rare disease causes and raise money as a group, collectively funding the labs and salaries of scientists to work on these diseases, ideally in an efficient way so that the work done on one disease can, at least partially, be effective for a number of the diseases in the group.
I don’t know the answer, I just wanted to offer an idea from my perspective.
If you stick to the private sector, the convictions wont even come up unless you bring them up and i think it would be rare to come up against ageism, and if you do, then simply, you dont want to work for those companies anyway.
Talk to some recruiters, tell them your skillset and see what they've got, I wouldnt bother mentioning the convictions because i personally dont see them as relevant (because whats relevant is, can you do the job), and they'll come back with options. If they talk about government or bank work, just say you'll pass on those and would rather work for a private company. I have the same preference purely due to my distaste for paperwork and beaurocracy, private companies are easier to deal with.
I suggest trying to reframe your mindset to evidence based, rather than assumption based. Right now you're making a lot of assumptions that you wont be successful without having any evidence of such. You have a lot of valuable skills, go and assess the marketplace, in my opinion, you can be successful.
How i built this is an excellent podcast full of VERY interesting stories and hes had big names on it.
I'd also say that I think schools in the UK (and I would imagine other countries) totally fail at teaching essential skills required for life. Financial literacy, basic cooking skills (I did home economics but it was the same course my mother did at school 30 years prior), how to actually learn things yourself (one of the most valuable skills in my opinion), how to plan and organise yourself for life, how to deal with problems that come up in life (bills, relationships, pets, whatever), how to fix things, drive/maintain a car, how credit ratings work, the value in travel and new experiences, etc.
My comments are based on an experience from 20 years ago but it seems that not much has improved since then. I've no idea how to solve these problems and prepare future generations, but its something I'd love to help figure out. My current assessment is that youtube feels like it provides a more valuable education system than state run schools.