[Richard Stevenson]

Having a chat to my plumber yesterday, turns out the tax man wants £183,000,ouch, he has had a chap doing jobs for him over the last 10 years and not paying his own tax, tax man says plumber should have taken it at source, now they say he is liable.

[p1w1]

must of been doing a hell of a lot of jobs for him to have that much to pay

[PoleKing]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

[deeege]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

Dont know about where you live Darren, but around here there are not too many plumbers who have averaged £70k/year for the last decade.

[tlwcs]

I thought they only go back 7 years?

[NWH]

Plumbers can earn good money but they don't all earn as much as you think,it's not like it was 10-15 years ago the old call out fees are laughed at these days.

[PoleKing]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

Dont know about where you live Darren, but around here there are not too many plumbers who have averaged £70k/year for the last decade.

Dunno about the last decade DG but certainly the last few years, yeah, a lot of them are taking a lot more than that. 6 figure turnover seems to be the norm, certainly not an exception.

They always got paid more than the other trades, even the sparky's, as years ago they started their own (or joined a different one, can't exactly remember) union.
NWH is right to a degree, the call out fees are not really as bad as they used to be but out of hours are still ridiculous.
I've never known a poor plumber.

[deeege]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

Dont know about where you live Darren, but around here there are not too many plumbers who have averaged £70k/year for the last decade.

Dunno about the last decade DG but certainly the last few years, yeah, a lot of them are taking a lot more than that. 6 figure turnover seems to be the norm, certainly not an exception.

They always got paid more than the other trades, even the sparky's, as years ago they started their own (or joined a different one, can't exactly remember) union.
NWH is right to a degree, the call out fees are not really as bad as they used to be but out of hours are still ridiculous.
I've never known a poor plumber.

I agree with most of that.

To owe £180k in back taxes though would roughly work out £70k /year for last 10 years.

Wasn't  many earning big money when the building stopped post 2008 with the recession. In fact plenty of them started cleaning windows and as we all know there's no money in that.

[PoleKing]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

Dont know about where you live Darren, but around here there are not too many plumbers who have averaged £70k/year for the last decade.

Dunno about the last decade DG but certainly the last few years, yeah, a lot of them are taking a lot more than that. 6 figure turnover seems to be the norm, certainly not an exception.

They always got paid more than the other trades, even the sparky's, as years ago they started their own (or joined a different one, can't exactly remember) union.
NWH is right to a degree, the call out fees are not really as bad as they used to be but out of hours are still ridiculous.
I've never known a poor plumber.

I agree with most of that.

To owe £180k in back taxes though would roughly work out £70k /year for last 10 years.

Wasn't  many earning big money when the building stopped post 2008 with the recession. In fact plenty of them started cleaning windows and as we all know there's no money in that.

 

[Mr B shine]

Plead poverty.
Fella I know, they came for him for £50k, after some faffing he got them to settle at £24k.
£12k down and £1k a month for the following 12 months.
It did get me thinking.


£18k tax a year for a plumber, I'd imagine, ain't too bad.

Dont know about where you live Darren, but around here there are not too many plumbers who have averaged £70k/year for the last decade.

Dunno about the last decade DG but certainly the last few years, yeah, a lot of them are taking a lot more than that. 6 figure turnover seems to be the norm, certainly not an exception.

They always got paid more than the other trades, even the sparky's, as years ago they started their own (or joined a different one, can't exactly remember) union.
NWH is right to a degree, the call out fees are not really as bad as they used to be but out of hours are still ridiculous.
I've never known a poor plumber.

I agree with most of that.

To owe £180k in back taxes though would roughly work out £70k /year for last 10 years.

Wasn't  many earning big money when the building stopped post 2008 with the recession. In fact plenty of them started cleaning windows and as we all know there's no money in that.

 there will be a load of interest and fines within that 180k,