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therattle posted:That’s not how Hollywood accounting works. The sum of my knowledge is an 8 second google search and this single paragraph 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As regressive as it is, that *is* one thing to be said for VAT. Amazon et. al. get away with paying basically zero tax in the UK by having to pay loans, dividends, licensing fees, and all sorts of other definitely real and not made up liabilities to a parent company tucked away somewhere with lower corporate tax rates. As corporate tax is based purely on profit, they can - completely legally (mostly) - claim to make no profit in the UK and so not have to pay tax. VAT and other sales taxes are basically impossible to avoid in this way (although there *are* ways of reducing the amount you have to pay but they come much, much closer to fraud). Other than in a few exempt industries companies don't pay VAT. It doesn't cost Amazon anything, it costs Amazon's customers.
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Thee Traditionale ſcientist Lateſt tranſmutation newſ Leeches: keye to the cure for plague?
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ayyyyyyy passed all of my first semester projects! got a 2.2 and two 2.1s with very positive feedback - i'm well pleased 
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kecske posted:The sum of my knowledge is an 8 second google search and this single paragraph That’s pretty vague so it does apply as written but the devil is in the detail. I’d be happy to explain properly if anyone is interested.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If that's what they wanted to do it's perfectly possible to DNA fingerprint poo poo, as long as it's fresh. That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a temporary secretary in the Works Dept at a hospital. My boss had a meeting in his diary with a Doc and he said to me "She's a right little poo poo stirrer". Anyway, it was pouring with rain so when she arrived for the meeting, I made her a cup of coffee (which isn't something that usually happened). We had a chat until my boss was finished on a phone call. After she'd gone, I said "she seemed really nice to me". He said "yeah but she's a poo poo stirrer. Literally. She works in the Endocrine and Metabolic dept and stirs poo poo."
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forkboy84 posted:Hasn't New Scientist been a bit poo poo for years? It's very thin and very expensive these days I know that! I used to buy it eons ago when I had an income big enough to pay tax. I found out I could read it online for free via our library but I had the details saved on another computer and need to look them up again.
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CoolCab posted:ayyyyyyy passed all of my first semester projects! got a 2.2 and two 2.1s with very positive feedback - i'm well pleased this finally got me to go and check the marks for mine and its pretty good. of the 3 modules 1 had 100% of its marks for the single bit of work, 1 had 60% for the single project and 40% of the group project and the marking on the single project was properly hosed so i only got 47%. The final module was split into 24% for a peer assessed but of owrk, 6% for group work and 70% for the main coursework. got 47/70 for the main coursework, 6/6 for the grouip and then got hosed on the peer review that i've contested
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peanut- posted:Other than in a few exempt industries companies don't pay VAT. It doesn't cost Amazon anything, it costs Amazon's customers. Arguably this is true of all taxation, just at various degrees of separation - compare to companies paying their staff in "tax-efficient" ways, or the multinational dodges I was talking about - if those loopholes were closed the money to pay those taxes would still be coming from customers.
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Jose posted:this finally got me to go and check the marks for mine and its pretty good. of the 3 modules 1 had 100% of its marks for the single bit of work, 1 had 60% for the single project and 40% of the group project and the marking on the single project was properly hosed so i only got 47%. The final module was split into 24% for a peer assessed but of owrk, 6% for group work and 70% for the main coursework. got 47/70 for the main coursework, 6/6 for the grouip and then got hosed on the peer review that i've contested nice bud! team "retreat back into academia to hide from plauge" kicking rear end
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Scikar posted:But giving £330 to someone who earns £12,900 makes a bigger difference to them than giving £430 to someone over £100k. I think you're right though, in that the proper way to make it progressive would be to simultaneously raise the top rate? Also important to note: raising the personal allowance by £500 doesn't increase people's income by £500, it just means they don't pay tax on that £500, so the real difference is something like 20% of £500. This is also a reason why politicians love it: you can say "we raised the personal allowance by £X" which implies you're giving everyone, especially the poorest, £X, in the same way as if you raised a child's allowance by £5, but that's not how it works. It's not really progressive because it's just a straight forward tax cut for the vast majority of taxpayers (IIRC there's a high income threshold after which you don't get the personal allowance and you pay tax on all income,* but unfortunately I've never been in a position to know what that is!), but couched in more progressive sounding language of "lifting people out of tax." If the goal is to help people on lower incomes then it's a really, really expensive way of doing that compared to other mechanisms (because you're foregoing tax income from everyone), and actively hinders people who already earn below the threshold because they are less well off relative to taxpayers while also facing the probable consequences of reduced government spending. The best way to make it progressive would be, like you say, to raise the top rate (or even do something more radical like implement more tax bands). The whole concept of "tax free income" is not really a good basis for any kind of progressive taxation or effective redistribution. * if you're in this bracket of taxpayer then it's vanishingly unlikely that you're paying income tax on all your monetary incomings and are almost certainly taking advantage of capital gains etc. Because the system is poo poo.
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Jose posted:this finally got me to go and check the marks for mine and its pretty good. of the 3 modules 1 had 100% of its marks for the single bit of work, 1 had 60% for the single project and 40% of the group project and the marking on the single project was properly hosed so i only got 47%. The final module was split into 24% for a peer assessed but of owrk, 6% for group work and 70% for the main coursework. got 47/70 for the main coursework, 6/6 for the grouip and then got hosed on the peer review that i've contested Check all of your "peers" to make sure Brown Moses hasn't used his CIA connections to infiltrate the group and have his revenge.
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Progressive would be banging out a UBI and then taxing all income above that, but whatever.
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Call this a "Gibbo" moment but I was watching the Nicola Sturgeon thing on the BBC and partway through it cut to black and then showed some archive footage of what appeared to be Prince Phillip. Maybe someone's hosed up and accidentally pressed the big red obituary button ahead of an announcement? EDIT: Someone on twitter caught it too: https://twitter.com/PerthshireMags/status/1367139783672291330
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Check all of your "peers" to make sure Brown Moses hasn't used his CIA connections to infiltrate the group and have his revenge. lol this was basically everyone had the space to upload their work and then 2 people next to them in the list would leave their marking for it in the same place. someone uploaded what is barely even a half finished project where mine was meant to go and then it had 3 reviews. the marks I know i lost on it would push me comfortably into the 70% bracket. CoolCab posted:nice bud! team "retreat back into academia to hide from plauge" kicking rear end i've been proper making GBS threads getting the marks back for these because its the first time i've done any report/essay writing in a long time
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When can I expect my 500 quid to buy drugs?
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Jose posted:
yeah same, it was genuinely quite difficult to get back into the swing of it. feeling more confident now though!
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sebzilla posted:Progressive would be banging out a UBI and then taxing all income above that, but whatever. Leggsy posted:EDIT: Someone on twitter caught it too: https://twitter.com/PerthshireMags/status/1367139783672291330
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what is the nicola drama? i even tried to read an article on it but my eyes just glaze over
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CoolCab posted:yeah same, it was genuinely quite difficult to get back into the swing of it. feeling more confident now though! see i can blast out 2k words on something i've done easily just going full steam of consciousness. it just needs a ton of editing which i'm bad at and anything over 2k words starts to become a struggle
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Jose posted:see i can blast out 2k words on something i've done easily just going full steam of consciousness. it just needs a ton of editing which i'm bad at and anything over 2k words starts to become a struggle we had courses on structuring essays and poo poo, it was great
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Communist Thoughts posted:what is the nicola drama? It's Scottish Russiagate. It's not worth paying attention to unless someone ends up resigning over it. I only care because it's my sickness.
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CoolCab posted:ayyyyyyy passed all of my first semester projects! got a 2.2 and two 2.1s with very positive feedback - i'm well pleased That's great work, well done.
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CoolCab posted:we had courses on structuring essays and poo poo, it was great yeah for me thats this term lol
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Communist Thoughts posted:what is the nicola drama? Salmond was accused of sexual assault but eventually won. Nicola Sturgeon is alleged to have misled the Scottish parliament on her meetings with Salmond and also wasting money on defending against a judicial review by Salmond on the handling the investigation despite legal advice that the government would lose. Salmond believes that Sturgeon has ganged up with vile unionists to launch a witch hunt him for ~reasons~ and is therefore working with the same vile unionists to try and remove Sturgeon. On the other hand Sturgeon probably has hosed up in her handling of the matter but probably not enough that it really justifies her resigning.
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Leggsy posted:Call this a "Gibbo" moment but I was watching the Nicola Sturgeon thing on the BBC and partway through it cut to black and then showed some archive footage of what appeared to be Prince Phillip. Maybe someone's hosed up and accidentally pressed the big red obituary button ahead of an announcement? Lol that's a big whoops. Definitely looks like they've been told to be prepped to press the red button any time now
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i thought Salmond was accused of sexual misconduct but they couldn't prove it - i even want to say he acknowledged he had been behaving inappropriately, it was just that they couldn't demonstrate it criminally. he did not get an "innocent" verdict back i want to say?
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CoolCab posted:i thought Salmond was accused of sexual misconduct but they couldn't prove it - i even want to say he acknowledged he had been behaving inappropriately, it was just that they couldn't demonstrate it criminally. he did not get an "innocent" verdict back i want to say? He was a creep, just not to a criminal degree is how I've heard it put.
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CoolCab posted:i thought Salmond was accused of sexual misconduct but they couldn't prove it - i even want to say he acknowledged he had been behaving inappropriately, it was just that they couldn't demonstrate it criminally. he did not get an "innocent" verdict back i want to say? you might be right, I've been a bit vague on what actually happened other than that he isn't legally speaking a sex pest
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I don't see why sturgeon would resign when its clearly been shown nobody gives a poo poo
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a pipe smoking dog posted:you might be right, I've been a bit vague on what actually happened other than that he isn't legally speaking a sex pest As allegedly heard in a recording of his lawyer on a train... I’ve listened to both Salmonds and Sturgeons submission to the committee. Today Sturgeon seems mostly to be taking flak for not personally intervening to direct an investigation into Salmonds behaviour. While tories are incensed over a court case costing half a million being an affront to the public purse, not sure if they have publicly commented on the cost of test and trace etc
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Jose posted:I don't see why sturgeon would resign when its clearly been shown nobody gives a poo poo Because the fearsome Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross told her to of course!
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a pipe smoking dog posted:you might be right, I've been a bit vague on what actually happened other than that he isn't legally speaking a sex pest "Not guilty" (the other 11 verdicts) also doesn't mean he's not a sex offender, there's no "definitely innocent" verdict The presumption of innocence is very important in law, but we don't have to use it in, like, everyday judgement. In my personal authority I find the defendant double-dog-guilty of Being A Wrong 'Un
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Is that even a presumption when he's been ruled not guilty? Excepting that one not proven charge obviously.
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I know poo poo-all about Scots law or the criminal law in general, but "not guilty" isn't the same as "innocent", it's still a presumption. My understanding is that both kinds of acquittal basically mean "not proven", expressly finding "not proven" just carries an unspoken "but c'mon, look at him"
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Well, at least we're finally loving done with Brex- https://twitter.com/Joe_Mayes/status/1367155099643097099
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One thing to bear in mind with juries in Scotland is that there's no requirement for unanimity, a simple majority of jurors is sufficient to convict. So while "not proven" is often interpreted as "we think you probably did it but the evidence wasn't good enough" it can also be that the jury was split on guilty vs not guilty, and the jurors pushing for a not guilty verdict agreed to vote 'not proven' to get one or two of the jurors voting 'guilty' to switch. Historically the two verdicts were "proven" and "not proven" and the conceit was that it was the state passing the moral judgment with the jury just being there to confirm the state's case. Then in like, I dunno, the 18th century or something, a lawyer for the defence encouraged the jury to assert their "ancient right" to deliver a not guilty verdict instead when it was clear that the prosecution had a rock solid case, but for a crime which the jury were sympathetic to. So originally (in Scotland) "not guilty" actually meant "we totally know you did it but you don't deserve to be punished". Over time this reversed (due to English/American cultural influence, maybe? Not sure) where "not proven" got the "we know you did it" connotation but with negative implications instead.
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