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- shapesalad2
See EU Later.
- PhanLo0
Worth a repost.
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- shapesalad2
- Not sure Ireland should be on there.shapesalad
- Ireland is in the Common Travel Area, so the graphic is correct.Sparky
- WASN'T BORIS' DAD APPLYING FOR FRENCH CITIZENSHIP A FEW DAYS AGOgrafician
- yeah, but he campaigned to remain, his bollock-brained son went for Leave.face_melter
- his mother and grandmother were natural French citizens and he was an MEP for 40 years.face_melter
- *40 years agoface_melter
- Haha...oh the irony of Brexit at work.utopian
- this is BS you can still work, live and study abroad, just like i could if i wanted to in a non eu country.trooperbill
- Trooper the key word is 'free'- It was visa and cost free pretty much. Now it's visa's and fees. Freedom. Free. Now. Gone.shapesalad
- PhanLo5
- 'sex arse tycoon' is a dynamite combination of words and furthers my theory that people who work for The Sport are literary geniuses.face_melter
- lolutopian
- this is BS the only hold up is a wait for a covid test before you get through.trooperbill
- shapesalad0
From the FT: https://www.ft.com/content/bae02…
"All overseas businesses now required to register for the tax, collect the money and pay HMRC
Changes to the UK’s cross-border value added tax rules that coincided with Britain’s departure from the EU single market at the start of the year have created “chaos” for direct mail orders, resulting in refusals to trade, delayed orders and opportunities for fraud.
On January 1 the UK implemented a change in the rules for foreign mail-order sellers, insisting they register for UK VAT for any items sold to UK customers, collect the correct sales tax on behalf of the government and pay the money to HM Revenue & Customs.
The changes were not directly linked to Brexit because the UK could have applied its existing rules for non-EU mail orders, which stipulate that VAT is added as goods enter the UK. But officials believed they did not have the capacity to police such a move so decided to force all foreign sellers to register for UK VAT if they want to sell to British consumers.
The difficulties in mailing orders across borders will be compounded, say campaigners for fair taxation, by an increase in fraudulent trade because HMRC has stopped policing VAT on mail-order imports at the UK’s borders.
Smaller EU foreign traders have criticised the new bureaucracy because they used to charge their domestic VAT rates. Some have now refused to supply to the UK.
Dutch bicycle parts company Dutch Bike Bits said it was “ludicrous for one country” to insist on these onerous conditions and it would, in future, “ship to every country in the world . . . except the UK”.
The confusion among smaller companies is so great that some EU companies have refused to supply UK customers because they are under the mistaken belief that they need to apply tariffs. Didriksons, a Swedish coat maker, has delayed orders under the impression that Brexit “imposes a customs duty on all trade to and from the UK”.
Companies caught up in the confusion include Brooks, the quintessentially British leather bicycle saddles manufacturer based in the West Midlands, It was unable to supply UK customers on Monday because it distributes goods from Italy.
Brooks said it could not supply UK customers because its products were, “shipped first to our logistics centre in Italy and from there to cyclists around the world”.Richard Asquith, who runs global indirect tax at Avalara, a tax consultancy, said there was “chaos in ecommerce” following the rollout of the new rules.
Reputable foreign companies would be unable to comply with the new distance selling rules quickly because HMRC was taking about two months to complete VAT registrations, he said.
For UK-based companies selling to EU customers, Mr Asquith added, Brexit-related red tape meant some businesses had decided it was not worth exporting to smaller EU markets any longer.Rules for these companies will change again in July when the EU introduces a one-stop shop for non-EU distance sellers to apply VAT correctly for all sales in each country.
HMRC has to check more than a million additional parcels a day for VAT compliance following the UK’s exit from the EU single market, and although it says it “will continue existing fiscal compliance checks”, UK retailers are worried that the tax authority will be swamped and unable to spot the difference between legitimate parcels with UK VAT paid remotely and those that dodged the new system.
Richard Allen, who runs the campaign group Retailers Against VAT Abuse Schemes, said: “If you don’t plug the loopholes, it distorts competition in no time”.
HMRC was unable to provide information on how many foreign sellers had registered for UK VAT in advance of the new rules. It said it was “developing a comprehensive compliance response in order to tackle issues of non-compliance by overseas direct sellers and online marketplaces”, but could not confirm what powers it had over companies in other jurisdictions."
- So every webshop in the world needs to register in the UK to sell there? Hahahafuck off!grafician
- Let the contraband begin lolgrafician
- Boris did say "Fuck Business".shapesalad
- shapesalad1
Brexit reality bites: The new dawn of trade friction:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/010…
Good read on just how crap brexit is for small scale designers selling various small items to uk/eu customers.
- Getting materials is becoming a more annoying process too. The upholsterer on a job I'm on has been waiting months for fabric.PhanLo
- I bought some records from Bleep in the UK in October. Due to Covid, they were delayed. Now I have to pay additional VAT and get reimbursed for the VAT I paidjmckinno
- Yep, I've already fobbed off a job this year as it had to be sent to the continent. Just not worth it. It wasn't a big one, but that's not really the point.Nairn
- Nairn2
I heard a weird frothing and spittling noise that was hard to place as it was coming from so many directions at once - quiet but pervasive in a way that it was clear that Something Terrible had happened in the UK.
Cue a quick scan of the Daily Mail and - yep, there she is - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
Who needs a faux war about Bendy Bananas when those federalising bastards on the continent are laughing as they confiscate hearty English lunches from our good and decent lorry drivers. THEY'RE LAUGHING AT *US*.
*froths and spittles
- Just let me keep the bread. :-(PhanLo
- Clearly he's had Dutch sandwiches. He's holding on to anything he can.Nairn
- I like the chips and mayo they do.PhanLo
- LOL so much at this, tnx Nairn!grafician
- nothing to do with brexit, the dutch police just want to eat something decent for a changehans_glib
- #welcometothebrexitPhanLo
- oey_oey0
- Clement Atleeee! Henry Cooper! Maggie Thatcher! Can you hear me!? They took your boy's sandwiches!face_melter
- LOL!...oey_oey
- I think this is pretty sad and in this profession, I mean TIR truck driver that's pretty fucked up.oey_oey
- PhanLo0
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- cherub-1
Does anyone else reckon the timing of the new, scarier covid strain coming out right before the final Brexit negotiations was a bit suss?
A new mutant strain of Coronavirus magically appears at just the right moment to isolate the UK at a point in time where being further isolated (economically at least) was the last thing they wanted to happen.
I mean the first thing that happen as a reaction to it was Europe thought to close borders.
- Didn't bawjaws play it up too much and regret it? After saying at Christmas people could spit on their granny for a week then realising it was a bad idea?PhanLo
- Cherub... look on the darken, we are all discussing evidence that UK gov + CCP China made covid so china could take over UK post brexit.shapesalad
- As revenge for Brits taking Hong Kong.shapesalad
- *look on the darkweb...shapesalad
- fadein111
Scottish fishing industry workers protest Brexit trade deal at Whitehall
- "Ma fash is ratin, in they docks eh!" Thats what you get when you back the fucking, cunt faced Tory party.mrAtor
- not sure on the stats of Scottish industry voting Brexit, obviously remain as a country but don't know stats on fishing industry voting Brexit up there (like infadein11
- England)fadein11
- My brother-in-law's family who live in Lewis were voting for Brexit as they felt screwed over on fishing. Probably a bit disappointed now.PhanLo
- PhanLo0
- woah, never seen that beforefadein11
- It's like North Korea in that Seth Rogen film.PhanLo
- 8m and they couldn't find someone who could use the photoshop scale tool?shapesalad
- This is like first year architecture student shit. If I did this in an image I would get fucking chewed out.face_melter
- they've done this a few times, they also fit new signage for free on existing shops en routekingsteven
- the main complaint about these from the locals is that they look foreign... they don't last long.kingsteven
- the newtownards rd one is a few streets from a loyalist mural you posted not so long ago phanlo, RECORDS!... pfft, its a vape shop now.kingsteven
- Everybody likes a Vape. :-)
On travels round NI, some wee villages were really sad looking. It's a shame.PhanLo - @face: no kidding ... I've seen better hastily cobbled-together mock-ups made of stock photo for last-minute PPT client presentations.Continuity
- c;mon the one with geese is cool :)renderedred
- PhanLo2
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