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Nor the Olympics

That’s a good point. The transfer window would be negated and lead to unfair teams.

It’s because there are plenty of other things to do over the summer and sod all in the winter

School holidays, summer holidays and what the flipping heck are you going to between October and February? Football is a winter sport.

What was wrong with a mask?

The Times today quoted Pulis as saying that the players will need three weeks of training on grass before they can play again. Why should anybody have to accommodate Liverpool? Let me put it like this. If the there were four teams all within a couple of points at the top would anybody care about Liverpool?

We didn’t.

The only consolation is that if the BDA is successful then her furlough could be backdated. I hope all goes well for you both, and that goes for all our contributors everywhere.

More info for Trousers about dentists: https://bda.org/advice/Coronavirus/Pages/financial-impact.aspx "The scheme is not expected to be used by employers who are receiving other public funding, including NHS dental practices. We are urgently trying to work out a way of ensuring that mixed practices can get some money from the furloughed workers scheme to cover private work, as well as money from the NHS." And: Backdating to the 1st March only applies to employees that have already been laid off. Such workers would need to be rehired and then furloughed. Employees placed on unpaid leave after 28 February 2020 can be furloughed.

Always a pleasure

The scheme is open to very employer no matter what work they do so your dentist can ‘furlough’ any of his employees subject to the conditions that are outlined in the links that I gave. There is a question as to whether his activities count as publicly funded. “Where employers receive public funding for staff costs, and that funding is continuing, we expect employers to use that money to continue to pay staff in the usual fashion – and correspondingly not furlough them. This also applies to non-public sector employers who receive public funding for staff costs.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-could-be-covered-by-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme I’m not a true expert but I have spent the past few days trying to find out more details by speaking to my accountant and sitting through a Sage webinar.

Yes and no. A state pension and my factory unit is in a fund. The problem is that the company needs to be viable in order to pay the rent.

So the hedge funds can make a fortune.

Nah, that’s Dominic Cummings.

Families are not subject to the no more than three rule. You are not supposed to drive to your place of exercise but enforcement seems to vary from One police force to another. Lack of contact is going to continue for a while I’m afraid.

A lot of them are paid through limited companies.

It won’t cost the company anything to put an employee on 80% salary. All employee costs will eventually be covered including employer’s NI and auto-enrolment pension payments. Any arrangements must be subject to your contract of employment.

It was a rhetorical question.

He should have washed his hands more. How did he manage to get a test when the front line NHS workers can’t?

Yes you can but the company must have at least one active director. Whilst furloughed any employee cannot do any work for the company, but they can work for another company that has not furloughed anybody.

It doesn’t affect me but this only comes into effect from 1st April. If your MOT expires before then you need to get your car tested.

Hi Trousers, I have just had an update from HMRC and your daughter can be taken back on the payroll and then furloughed provided she was on the payroll on the 28th February. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme

Glad you’re still with us Crabby and thanks for your extensive report. What did you expect with a username like yours?

That is the only way that it can or should be done. If he is getting remuneration in some other form then tax will be paid on it. Unless he is geting paid in cash and not declaring it. Getting paid a wage and then something extra on dividends does not avoid the tax. That is paid before the dividends are issued.

That is a back of an envelope calculation based on an overall infection rate of 80% and a Case Fatality Rate of 1% in a population of 67 million or so.