Coronavirus - political views - supporting or otherwise...

[Doon frae Troon]

Pick for Britain.
Any furloughed workers on here going to lend a hand to the hard pressed farmers and help pick the crops/harvest

 

[User20205]

Pick for Britain.
Any furloughed workers on here going to lend a hand to the hard pressed farmers and help pick the crops/harvest

Are you?

 

[DanFST]

Pick for Britain.
Any furloughed workers on here going to lend a hand to the hard pressed farmers and help pick the crops/harvest

First i've heard of this, the website is down!


Is this only for farms that aren't exporting their produce? Tax wise, is it additional to your taxable furlough income, or does it remove your furlough payments?

 

[User20205]

First i've heard of this, the website is down!


Is this only for farms that aren't exporting their produce? Tax wise, is it additional to your taxable furlough income, or does it remove your furlough payments?

I registered a few weeks ago. It’s in addition to your furlough payments and would be taxed accordingly from my understanding. Could mean you’ll end up doing it for about £4 p/h

 

[User20205]

I registered a few weeks ago. It’s in addition to your furlough payments and would be taxed accordingly from my understanding. Could mean you’ll end up doing it for about £4 p/h

Piece work depending

 

[bobmac]

I registered a few weeks ago. It’s in addition to your furlough payments and would be taxed accordingly from my understanding. Could mean you’ll end up doing it for about £4 p/h

If the basic minimum wage is £8.72 and you pay 20% tax, I make that almost £7 ph minus a bit of NI.
What have I missed?

 

[rudebhoy]

If the basic minimum wage is £8.72 and you pay 20% tax, I make that almost £7 ph minus a bit of NI.
What have I missed?

The costs of getting to and from the farm?

 

[bobmac]

The costs of getting to and from the farm?

When I did picking, there used to be a mini bus that went round and collected everyone.
And if you did drive, are you really going to spend £23-24 per day on petrol, given petrol is at it's lowest price in years?

 

[User20205]

If the basic minimum wage is £8.72 and you pay 20% tax, I make that almost £7 ph minus a bit of NI.
What have I missed?

If you get the furlough payment of anywhere near £2500 per month, any additional earnings are added & taxed accordingly. I’m no tax expert, happy to corrected.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Are you?

No, I am not furloughed.

 

[User20205]

No, I am not furloughed.

That bit isn’t compulsory. Just thought you’d be up for it, you seem keen to promote this for others

 

[Foxholer]

Could have been worse and used your normal one word twaddle reply.

Nothing you posted actually justified that expression. Just boringly 'more of the same tedious and pointless attempt to mock'!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Why would we be concerned, it's the Government's job to get the scheme up and running, if they don't they can be held to account.

My concern would simply be that if the government and it's scientific and medical advisors have determined that 18,000 health professional contact tracers (separate from call handlers) need to be recruited by mid-May and trained by end-May - and that level is to support a phased return to school - then the numbers are currently not there.

We heard what the deputy CMO to the MoD said yesterday - it is capability in place that matters and not a date.

If the 18,000 includes call handlers and 7,500 health professionals are what is required then great - job done.

And my wife can stop worrying about her application. The application required her to make declarations in respect of her background and provided identity evidence. I was assuming that giving this up front would enable candidate applicants to be interviewed while any background checks required were being undertaken. But given she recently did her NMC re-validation I am thinking that information is already there.

Just asking for a little bit of clarity please - and a request that such as Eustice do not use ambiguous phrasing such as '...in place to assist in contact tracing'. Precision in language is important in the current environment and is not difficult to give us.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

If you get the furlough payment of anywhere near £2500 per month, any additional earnings are added & taxed accordingly. I’m no tax expert, happy to corrected.

That is my understanding. Furlough payments for the 'employed' are treated as if they were your normal earnings and so will be subject to income tax and NI as normal - and I assume Tax Code changes or rebates provided in the normal way. Support for the self-employed will similarly be treated as income, for tax year 2020/21. I don't know if the support goes directly into declared profit.

 

[User20205]

That is my understanding. Furlough payments for the 'employed' are treated as if they were your normal earnings and so will be subject to income tax and NI as normal - and I assume Tax Code changes or rebates provided in the normal way. Support for the self-employed will similarly be treated as income, for tax year 2020/21. I don't know if the support goes directly into declared profit.

So if you are on the £2500 per month, according to my rudimentary maths, it will be approx 20 hrs at min wage before you get 40% tax on the remainder. That may be a disincentive to some furloughed workers to pick fruit for approx £5 p/hour

 

[Doon frae Troon]

That bit isn’t compulsory. Just thought you’d be up for it, you seem keen to promote this for others

Unfortunately this is not possible.
Sounds like this new government initiative has fallen on stoney ground rather than the fertile loam they had expected.

 

[Old Skier]

Nothing you posted actually justified that expression. Just boringly 'more of the same tedious and pointless attempt to mock'!

Says the self proclaimed guardian of the bracket.

 

[Old Skier]

Our MP getting it the neck today after N Devon traffic was so bad and we became gridlocked nobody can get anywhere with HID staying in work for another hour in the hope that the traffic will ease

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-52742519

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Government rolling out members of the 2nd Eleven to do the briefings. Wherefore art thou Johnson, or indeed any of your senior cabinet ministers...I'm sitting watching and listening to someone I've never seen before. I guess that that's what you get when you restrict ministerial positions to those who will swear fealty on all matters Johnson. The talent pool of experienced MPs shrinks. And with Stephen Powis being my least favourite medical expert...not the most inspiring pair - but hey - beggars can't be choosers

 

[Hacker Khan]

Our MP getting it the neck today after N Devon traffic was so bad and we became gridlocked nobody can get anywhere with HID staying in work for another hour in the hope that the traffic will ease

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-52742519

To a certain extent what did they expect when you have the government saying people can drive for as long as they want for exercise. Dred to think what will happen on bank holiday if the weather is good. And what this will do to the R rate in a couple of weeks.