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03 May 2006, 01:55 PM
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Post on ScoobyNet from work? Then be prepared to pay tax on it!
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The Treasury has played down the extent of the changes. However, the Finance Bill, to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow, makes clear that both employers and employees will now be taxed if they use office computers for personal reasons, such as surfing the web or sending e-mails to friends, unless their personal use is “not significant”.
Under the rules that replace the scheme, office computers used in part for non-business purposes are treated as a benefit in kind, meaning that employees will have to pay income tax on them, and employers will have to pay national insurance contributions for them as well.
03 May 2006, 02:00 PM
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Nice to see them focussed on the important things rather than the trivial, say the trivial 2bn paid out in error by the Tax credit people!
Honestly whatever next, window tax, perhaps they could call the new tax the windows tax
Honestly whatever next, window tax, perhaps they could call the new tax the windows tax
03 May 2006, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by boxst
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Surely that is debatable though. Almost everyone in a certain kind of job has a laptop and the amount of 'personal' use can't really be monitored.
Steve
Surely that is debatable though. Almost everyone in a certain kind of job has a laptop and the amount of 'personal' use can't really be monitored.
Steve
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03 May 2006, 02:18 PM
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Good old Labour 
I guess the huge cost of keeping all these criminal immigrants in prison, and then all the benefits and legal aid they get when theyre out has to be met somehow
I guess the huge cost of keeping all these criminal immigrants in prison, and then all the benefits and legal aid they get when theyre out has to be met somehow
03 May 2006, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by SJ_Skyline
If you use your home PC for work purposes, will you be able to claim tax relief?
03 May 2006, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
Have you not heard of logfiles??
Yes. But I'm not in the office that much, so the log files from there wouldn't be worth much and the remote access software can track (I assume) but I doubt that they would bother to send that report every month to my employer.
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03 May 2006, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Wurzel
What if you use your works laptop at home on your private DSL line using your private ISP which you pay for???
03 May 2006, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisB
That's a benefit in kind, so cough up sailor!
would like to see them try and tax me. If they decide to tax the fact I have a laptop I will just give it back and use my desktop pc at work so still no tax money from me. The tried to tax our mobile phones so we all handed them back saying ok here you go, the company flapped and paniced and said oh ok and gave them all back to us. The company needs me to have a laptop and mobile more than I need the company to give me them so there is no way I am paying tax on anything except my salary.
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