Yogi, no, I don't sit out in the garden I'm glad that at least you can sit in the shade

Moonie, well done on your washing exploits

@El Loro posted:

Yogi, no, I don't sit out in the garden I'm glad that at least you can sit in the shade

 

Moonie, well done on your washing exploits

Thanks El 

Second lot of washing out so that’s me done washing wise. I may attack the front garden now 

My washing is all dry and ready to get in, which is my next job 

The front garden is now looking more like a garden 
More to do with that after the washing is in and folded 

Still working on the client with the complex accounts. Found that he'd emailed me asking me to have a look at his workings on the opening balances on the trial balance for 2019/20 year.

Rang him to say I'd already done that work and had emailed it to him back in February

@El Loro posted:

Still working on the client with the complex accounts. Found that he'd emailed me asking me to have a look at his workings on the opening balances on the trial balance for 2019/20 year.

 

Rang him to say I'd already done that work and had emailed it to him back in February

Brilliant El  

Just had an email from HMRC (sent to agents such as myself) about letting clients know about the self-employment income support scheme, their online tool for this, and advising clients to set up a Government Gateway account if they didn't already have one.

I'd done all that on Monday

That makes you three steps ahead El      

Not surprised    

Everyone who does self-assessment tax returns will have received from HMRC a notice to complete a tax return. That happens every year in April.

Tucked away in the small print on the back page is this.

"Please note you'll no longer get a blank tax return from us in the post, and later this year we'll stop sending paper statements"

HMRC are in the process of forcing everyone online - that's why they are doing this.

The blank tax return aspect is irrelevant for me as I do every client online with HMRC anyway.

The cessation of paper statements is a different matter. Virtually everyone waits for those as that's what they use to remind them to pay on time.

I don't know if they will stop sending them out for the July tax bills. Looks certain that they will have by the bills for next January.

I will be alerting clients about this fairly soon. For those who have internet access they should get an online personal tax account set up with HMRC  if they haven't done so already. They'll be able to check that themselves as to the tax to pay. I always tell clients what their tax is but that's at the time I do their returns rather than when they have to pay. For those who don't have internet access I'll have to provide them with the amounts to pay and payslips a few weeks before the tax is due.

@~Sparkling Summer~ did you spot this change?

You mentioned earlier El about a 100 year old practice. Was it a Church? Or similar?

And I know your tribute to Dave Greenfield was personal  

@velvet donkey posted:

You mentioned earlier El about a 100 year old practice. Was it a Church? Or similar?

 

And I know your tribute to Dave Greenfield was personal  

The 100 year client is a charity but not a church.

Yes, my tribute to Dave Greenfield was personal I'm not going into any detail though as far too personal.

That's why I liked it. I can read      

@El Loro posted:

Just had an email from HMRC (sent to agents such as myself) about letting clients know about the self-employment income support scheme, their online tool for this, and advising clients to set up a Government Gateway account if they didn't already have one.

 

I'd done all that on Monday

Let’s hope they keep sending you stuff you have already sorted El 

@El Loro posted:

Everyone who does self-assessment tax returns will have received from HMRC a notice to complete a tax return. That happens every year in April.

 

Tucked away in the small print on the back page is this.

"Please note you'll no longer get a blank tax return from us in the post, and later this year we'll stop sending paper statements"

 

HMRC are in the process of forcing everyone online - that's why they are doing this.

 

The blank tax return aspect is irrelevant for me as I do every client online with HMRC anyway.

 

The cessation of paper statements is a different matter. Virtually everyone waits for those as that's what they use to remind them to pay on time.

 

I don't know if they will stop sending them out for the July tax bills. Looks certain that they will have by the bills for next January.

 

I will be alerting clients about this fairly soon. For those who have internet access they should get an online personal tax account set up with HMRC  if they haven't done so already. They'll be able to check that themselves as to the tax to pay. I always tell clients what their tax is but that's at the time I do their returns rather than when they have to pay. For those who don't have internet access I'll have to provide them with the amounts to pay and payslips a few weeks before the tax is due.

@~Sparkling Summer~ did you spot this change?

Your profession is a mind field. Good job you’re a good detector 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie, Velvet and Ros 

Hug for the night owls 

@Yogi19 posted:

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie, Velvet and Ros 

Hug for the night owls 

Nighty night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi, Rosss, Velvet et al  

@velvet donkey posted:

Morning troops    

 

Hope all are sound. The starlings certainly rise early - they've got a nest above my bedroom eaves. PVC - live and let live. Iridescent like maggies. The maggie can't get in no matter how he/she tries. Too small an opening. Nature eh?

 

Pretty dull atm. We need light      

 

Have a good one and a safe one  

yes we have starlings in our pvc eaves as well -gorgeous + noisy we are going to get it sorted but velvet food for thought-live and let live

@El Loro posted:

Yogi, no, I don't sit out in the garden I'm glad that at least you can sit in the shade

 

Moonie, well done on your washing exploits

love sitting in the garden  reading and in the sun but sensibly

night yogi moonsie velvet summer

Good morning everyone it looks like it could  be sunny today. Yesterday was showery and then sunny. It's very odd to have a Bank Holiday on a Friday without a Bank Holiday Monday to follow. I think they should have given us an extra Bank Holiday for VE Day. What does everyone else think?

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Forecast to be another warm sunny day here though there's a risk of rain or thunderstorms later.

Squiggle, the May Day bank holiday was an extra bank holiday introduced by Michael Foot in 1978. Over the years it's been suggested that, as there were the existing Good Friday, Easter Monday and Whitsun banks holidays, it could be changed to have a Trafalgar bank holiday around 21 October. Then there wouldn't be such a gap in bank holdays between the late August one and the ones at Christmas. Just referring to the ones in this country.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone   
A sunny start to the day but light showers promised for this afternoon. So washing on the line already 

It is a strange Bank Holiday Squiggle 

Have a great day everyone but stay safe 

Good morning everyone 

Weather started off cloudy, with some sunshine popping through now.

It does seem strange that we aren’t having a Bank Holiday on Monday as well as today. 
Have a good day and stay safe, all 

Cheltenham has a paint festival each year. This year it will have to be a virtual one of course. A BBC collection of some of those "big wall" paintings which would have been on the sides of buildings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-52556856

One of the best images ever taken from the Earth of Jupiter:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-52587488
It's in infrared and shows the warmer regions under the gas clouds.

@El Loro posted:

One of the best images ever taken from the Earth of Jupiter:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-52587488
It's in infrared and shows the warmer regions under the gas clouds.

That’s a great piccie El 

 I have just had a look at the local weather forecast and it now says hail showers imminent 

Good job I just fetch the last of my washing in, as it is now dry  

Moonie, I hope your hail showers didn't happen
So far, there haven't been any thunderstorms here as one of the forecasts had predicted.

@El Loro posted:

Moonie, I hope your hail showers didn't happen
So far, there haven't been any thunderstorms here as one of the forecasts had predicted.

No hail showers or rain, just sunshine El  

@Moonie posted:

No hail showers or rain, just sunshine El  

Good

Evening all 

I’m glad your weather stayed nice, Moonie 

Amazing pic of Jupiter, El 

@Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

I’m glad your weather stayed nice, Moonie 

Amazing pic of Jupiter, El 

 

Fankoo Yogi 🙂

@Moonie posted:

Fankoo Yogi 🙂

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie  and Ros 

Hug for any night owls

Nighty night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi, Rosss and night callers. I your nights are peaceful ones  

@squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone it looks like it could  be sunny today. Yesterday was showery and then sunny. It's very odd to have a Bank Holiday on a Friday without a Bank Holiday Monday to follow. I think they should have given us an extra Bank Holiday for VE Day. What does everyone else think?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

yes I do think we should have a VE bank holiday squiggle-so no-one forgets the sacrifices

@El Loro posted:

One of the best images ever taken from the Earth of Jupiter:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-52587488
It's in infrared and shows the warmer regions under the gas clouds.

wow it looks like a fireball  -thanks EL interesting

night yogi moonsiesummer if you are around

Good morning everyone it's another lovely bright morning.

I really do dislike magpies. We've been watching two young pigeons nest building all week. Yesterday there was an empty pigeon eggshell on the grass.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Another warm sunny day here,

Squiggle, magpies are notorious

Rossini's overture to "La Gaza Ladre" which we know as "The Thieving Magpie".

I hope everyone has a good day