Cheques: does anybody still use them?

[MrGongGong]

Please go away.

He's not a Brussels Commissioner you know

[ahinton]

That's not exactly rocket science
I find that putting it all in a bag (or a series of bags for different things)
and then once a year splitting it up works fine
I made a decision years ago NOT to become a company and NOT to do the whole VAT thing
why complicate things ?
and I DO work in multiple countries etc but it's really not that complicated and it certainly wouldn't be any easier with a "business" bank account which would just create more cashflow problems

Not everyone can "decide" not to "do the VAT thing" (unfortunately) whether or not they decide to incorporate, although I've fond a way to extricate myself from the VAT thing and, like yourself, endeavour to keep matters as simple as possible; on this we most certainly agree.

[Beef Oven]

He's not a Brussels Commissioner you know

Keep politics out of this. Why are you obsessed with the EU?

[ahinton]

Please go away.

Merely feigning politeness by inserting "please" before your second repetition doesn't do you any favours either and you still haven't said where, when, for how long or why - or even what good it might do you (if any).

[ahinton]

He's not a Brussels Commissioner you know

That is as true as it is fortunate, for me and for everyone else!

[Beef Oven]

Merely feigning politeness by inserting "please" before your second repetition doesn't do you any favours either and you still haven't said where, when, for how long or why - or even what good it might do you (if any).

Give me your postcode and house number.
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[ahinton]

Keep politics out of this.

Quite; politics must indeed be kept in cheque I mean check here...

[ahinton]

Give me your postcode and house number.
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I don't have a house number but the mailing address that you presumably need in order to send me your unbounceable cheque (and, in the absence of any other evidence, I have to assume that this is why you want me to give you that information) may be found on my website at www.sorabji-archive.co.uk. By the way, I do not and indeed would not expect you to send such a cheque without your ordering some music or such like...

Thank you very much in advance and good night!

[MrGongGong]

Not everyone can "decide" not to "do the VAT thing" (unfortunately)

If you turn over enough for that you can certainly afford to pay someone to sort it out for you.

Keep politics out of this. Why are you obsessed with the EU?

Because the EU paid for my latest electroacoustic composition (Westmalle Trippel)

[ahinton]

If you turn over enough for that you can certainly afford to pay someone to sort it out for you.

I didn't divulge whether or not I personally turn over a sum in excess of the VAT registration threshold; I merely pointed out that many of those who do so do not have that choice available to them whilst at the same time pointing out that I have a way around that kind of thing that works for me and is legal and above board.

[Beef Oven]

If you turn over enough for that you can certainly afford to pay someone to sort it out for you.



Because the EU paid for my latest electroacoustic composition (Westmalle Trippel)

Beethoven and Napoleon will be spinning in their graves.

[MrGongGong]

I didn't divulge whether or not I personally turn over a sum in excess of the VAT registration threshold; I merely pointed out that many of those who do so do not have that choice available to them whilst at the same time pointing out that I have a way around that kind of thing that works for me and is legal and above board.

Jimmy Carr said a similar thing to me as well

Beethoven and Napoleon will be spinning in their graves.

Vive le GRM

[ahinton]

Beethoven and Napoleon will be spinning in their graves.

But, if so, one clockwise and the other counter-clockwise, surely?

Anyway, I am unaware that history has recorded that the latter tried to bribe the former with a large cheque to ensure the reinstatement of the Eroica dedication (mon Dieu, what a way to try to return to the topic!)...

[ahinton]

Jimmy Carr said a similar thing to me as well

Was that among the useful tips that he gave you?

By the way, I omitted to mention that one doesn't pay professional to sort out one's business accounts out of turnover as you appeared to suggest above; one does it out of profits and, as Amaztarbucks et al surely know better than most, turnover and profit can be two very different things.

[teamsaint]

well, that must surely be the most bonkers saturday night MB exchange of all time.

Excellent work all round!