Whitey Grandad

Agreed, although whether the savings should be spent on doctors I'm not so sure about.

Exactly, which is worse the 50,000 or the one? The 'offence' is the same. There's an old joke: A man asks a girl if she will sleep with him for a million pounds. She thinks about it and says yes. He then asks if she will sleep with him for a pound, She says 'of course not, what do you think I am?' He says 'We've established what you are, now we are merely arguing over the price'. The flush of accountants started after Rolls-Royce went bust. Then we got Thatcher and her lot trying to put a price on everything.

I'm all for it. Perhaps it will discourage all these single mothers.

There were a lot of very average players out there tonight, and even they were playing below average.

Morally they're the same. 50,000 people saving £20 or one person £1,000,000. More than that, the former is illegal, the second isn't, although perhaps it ought to be. One of the consequences is that Britain has more accountants per head of population than any industrialised country.

Pompey's new ground?

This 1% business. Surely it's only delaying the tax, not avoiding it. If you don't repay the loan promptly then the Revenue jump on you.

'slashed' to far higher rates than most people pay.

It all depends on whether you think that the government spends the money more wisely than the earner. You could make an argument that leaving the money in the bank would do more good for the health of the economy.

Drainage is important, and regular raking and cutting. For cats you need a catapult, for dogs it's a dogapult.

Tax avoidance is not wrong, by definition. The right to minimise one's tax is enshrined in law.

there not lining their pockets at our expense. We are not actually putting money in their pockets. 'Not paying their fair share' maybe. It wouldn't matter if the government didn't spend so much. Cut government spending by half, slash tax rates and nobody would bother trying to avoid it.

In this case 1% is too low, but I do think that the principle of a percentage is wrong. Once you've paid some threshold, say £50,000, then the rate should reduce to around 10%. As I once said in a private meeting with Nigel Lawson (ooh, get him!) the intention is to get these people to stay and pay the tax rather than avoiding it, and he readily agreed.

The last series was crap. They changed the format and moved production to somewhere west. Mick Aston left in disgust and I don't blame him. The new presenter Mary-Ann Ochota has also left. They meddled with a much-loved product.

No you're not. You're thinking in percentage terms, not absolute amounts. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2107031/UK-Budget-2012-Top-1-earners-contribute-income-tax.html (Daily Mail but still valid)

It's simple really. 1% is way too low and %50 is way too high. Make it flat with no allowances, and anything over 20% is too much. The difference between benefit cheats and tax avoiders is that one takes money but the other just doesn't give it. And one is illegal, the other isn't.

I'd rather have the SLS, thanks. Do I have a choice of colour?

Was that at Woodside Avenue? I used to buy from them and they arranged or my son to have some work experience when he was at school. Did you know that Vero was founded by Sir Geoffrey Verdon-Roe (hence the company name), son of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe of Avro aircraft fame? Sir Alliott is buried in St. Andrews church graveyard at Hamble.

It depends on getting the FIT guaranteed before August. The advantage of an industrial unit is that we would be using the electricity whilst we are producing it. I use an average over the year of 50 units a day, 40/day in summer and 60/day in winter. I've just had a bill for 19 working days in April for around £450 and it scares the willies out of me. Historically the usage has stayed the same for at least 12 years but the cost is steadily rising. Let's see what the costs are and take it from there.

I know them very, very well and have done for nearly thirty years. The owner is an old friend of mine. Do I remember that you work in the health service? In which case I think I know where this is going! Give me a pm and I'll give you my phone number and we can have a chat.

If it makes you happier, I am having quotes tomorrow for a rooftop solar system on my factory unit.

Wash your keyboard! All designed, manufactured, assembled and tested here by me, and my colleagues. We also export signs, mainly to France, USA, Australia

Bought my two this morning. £1350 plus £3.00 because I paid by card instead of cash. Are they crazy? Don't they know how much cash costs to process? If it makes any of you feel any better, my brother-in-law's company has just renewed their four corporate package seats (not a box) at White Hart Lane for a total price of £19,000 for one season. Ouch.

That film would be worth seeing. If the posts aren't vertical then all bets are off. No technology can ever be 100% accurate and there would need to an allowance for the margin of error, say 6", assuming that you're going to assume 'no goal' if in doubt. There will always be a point where 50 people would say 'goal' and the other 'no goal' it's a very simple sport, twenty-odd blokes running around a grass field kicking lumps out of the ball and each other. Many decisions are vague and qualified by 'in the opinion of the referee'. Judging offside by an imaginary line across the field at a right-angle is always going to be subjective. It's only a sport and without all the money and hype the result would not be important. Leave the beautiful game as it is, warts and all. entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Electronic programmable displays, and anything else that makes money.