VAT Question & Other legal queries

[magicalwonders]

Sorry, just noticed you can live on £14000, where is this? in UK?

John, I'm based in Hertfordshire and looking through the Jobs pages in the local press it seems a lot of employers are offering this salary and less! The short answer therefore appears to be everywhere! Although we consider ourselves to be a wealthy nation, as with every wealthy nation there is also wide spread poverty. We're just better at hiding it than most countries.

Herts is considered a fairly affluent area so I'd imagine the prospects don't improve as you travel further north.

There are probably not many people in the U.K. who can now get a mortgage based on their own earnings. Even when income is combined with a partner it's becoming difficult to raise sufficient funds. Some financial experts are forecasting that we will end up with the Japanese solution. In that scenario the great grand children are still paying off the original mortgage 60 years on.

I know in America a lot of people take on two or three jobs in order to survive. We tend not to be too far behind in US trends, so maybe that's what's in store for the good people of the U.K.?

Myles

[chris ashdown]

John

Did not forget the vat and other charges but just tried to make a point that originated earlier on on this post "how can you start up and afford to employ a designer to do your site"

I think I have proved that you could do it with a much lower turnover than the VAT threshold of £60,000 in fact under half of that figure

£14,000 seems good to me as a start up after all the next year you have the developers £1000 plus the £410 from the actinic purchase to add to your wages yet alone increasing your sales

In East anglia £14,000 would be considered quite a good wage our bus drivers are currently out on strike with pay starting at £11500 going to £15,000 for a 39 hour week and lot more are on the minimum wage ala all shop floor staff.

[RuralWeb]

I cannot remember exactly where it is in all the legal stuff that relates to websites BUT I am sure that it is a requirement. Where I live in the NW there are regular TV commercials about not ordering anything online from a website that does not give contact details. I certainly insist that my clients have a separate "contact us" page.

[magicalwonders]

This seems to come under regulation 7, part 8 of the Distance Selling Regulations.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/pd...lguidebuis.pdf
The link details some changes that were introduced from April this year.

Not sure if it's enforceable though. If a website doesn't provide contact details, how do you prove they're based in the U.K.?

Myles