VAT and foreign websites
A lot of people reading this blog will be aware that the EU has a tax on non-essential items which, in the UK, is called Value-Added Tax, or VAT. The annoyance of VAT itself aside, it is a legal requirement for sites to support it when selling things for VAT-registered entities based in the EU. [...]
Bureaucracy
Today I found out that our delivery driver had been fined by his employer because of a rounding error on a dispatch label.
We sent out a 10g - yes, 10 gramme - item through their site, printed off all the correct labels, etc, and dispatched it in one of their small item envelopes - lets [...]
Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: Why you should be worried
Today, I had two very harrowing moments. The first was when I was sponsoring a friend to cycle a very long distance in a foreign country (well, it’s foreign to her; she lives in South Holland), and the second was whilst correcting a mistake in a grocery order.
I put my card details in to the [...]
Tax Online: Round 2
Last week, I received a letter in the post from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs regarding the tax self-assessment form which I submitted online in January, about two days before the deadline. It says:
“We have not yet received payment of your outstanding self-assessment tax. Please pay £amount immediately.”
Oooohkay… Now, there’s something I probably need to [...]