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I'd like a refund on the time I spent reading your comment.
I've spent cumulatively much more time comparing SVGs of pelicans, and we know who's responsible for that...
Hah, fair!
The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
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Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#42in a way i like the system in china. they simply force you to use their software to print invoices or receipts on government supplied numbered invoice paper, which automatically reports every sale. if there is no sale you don't need to do anything, because it's practically not possible to make a sale without printing a receipt and have it reported. for end consumer sales for a while the receipt paper had a scratch fi…
Restaurants in Quebec are similar: forcibly integrated into a provincial sales tax system and part of your receipt has some government segment.
Largely because unscrupulous restaurants had, I think they were called “zippers” to perma-erase revenue/transactions.
Some EU countries did a “if you don’t get a receipt, you don’t have to pay”, which erased the concept of a bar tab. During a drinking session with friends, you’d end up with a stack of receipts to pay as you got a receipt with each beer request.
Income taxes are a similar idea: employer pays on your behalf and then you do some manual or virtually automatic reconciliation at the end of the year. Canada is pretty much the latter where the gov already has all the info and you can import it into your tax software where most people don’t have to change anything.
I dunno why countries like sales taxes but low tariffs. Would be easier to tariff imports at a small number of points and let everything internal run free. Why have sales tax on local production.
The more “tax points” you create, the harder it’s going to be to enforce it all.
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#43in a way i like the system in china. they simply force you to use their software to print invoices or receipts on government supplied numbered invoice paper, which automatically reports every sale. if there is no sale you don't need to do anything, because it's practically not possible to make a sale without printing a receipt and have it reported. for end consumer sales for a while the receipt paper had a scratch fi…
Restaurants in Quebec are similar: forcibly integrated into a provincial sales tax system and part of your receipt has some government segment. Largely because unscrupulous restaurants had, I think they were called “zippers” to perma-erase revenue/transactions. Some EU countries did a “if you don’t get a receipt, you don’t have to pay”, which erased the concept of a bar tab. During a drinking session with friends, yo…
tariffs wouldn't capture anything locally produced.
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Restaurants in Quebec are similar: forcibly integrated into a provincial sales tax system and part of your receipt has some government segment. Largely because unscrupulous restaurants had, I think they were called “zippers” to perma-erase revenue/transactions. Some EU countries did a “if you don’t get a receipt, you don’t have to pay”, which erased the concept of a bar tab. During a drinking session with friends, yo…
tariffs wouldn't capture anything locally produced.
Aren't local profits taxed?
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#45This reminds me of the terry gilliam movie Brazil, with dystopian bureaucracy...
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#46in a way i like the system in china. they simply force you to use their software to print invoices or receipts on government supplied numbered invoice paper, which automatically reports every sale. if there is no sale you don't need to do anything, because it's practically not possible to make a sale without printing a receipt and have it reported. for end consumer sales for a while the receipt paper had a scratch fi…
Restaurants in Quebec are similar: forcibly integrated into a provincial sales tax system and part of your receipt has some government segment. Largely because unscrupulous restaurants had, I think they were called “zippers” to perma-erase revenue/transactions. Some EU countries did a “if you don’t get a receipt, you don’t have to pay”, which erased the concept of a bar tab. During a drinking session with friends, yo…
Some people don't realize that receipts are not for them (the customer).
They're to make sure employees ring up the sale (and don't pocket the money)
and now I understand they're for the government too, to make sure taxes are paid.
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#47Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#48I work in UK Government and the problem is that procurement depts are so afraid of awarding tenders to dodgy suppliers they add so many layers of bureaucracy that it prevents local or more innovative contractors. The rules are much more flexible for low value tenders Please realise there are many civil servants and local government officers that realise the system is overly bureaucratic and are encouraging procurement teams to change their processes, but it is mostly dictated by national legislation.
I think allowing mayoral authorities to flex their procurement systems for innovative solutions would be a good testing ground. The whole point of devolution is to allow areas to spend money locally how they see fit and it can become a bit of a laboratory for new, risky ideas that - if they pay off - can be copied by other places.
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
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How do you know they didn't read the contract and know exactly what would be required of them? Just because it's in the contract doesn't mean you can't complain if it's a stupid waste of time.
> Just because it's in the contract doesn't mean you can't complain if it's a stupid waste of time. For a start they would be better of complaining to their MP instead of ranting about it on the internet. At least there is a remote chance their MP is in a position to do something about it.
Letter to MP: one letter to MP, nothing to show for it.
Complain on blog: several letters to MPs of different districts, all of whom can now say that their constituents are writing to them and complaining about the same thing.
I don’t know the inner workings of Parliament but this is pretty basic for any remotely democratic government system. One person who cares a lot is less valuable than a lot of people who only care a little.
Re: The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Restaurants in Quebec are similar: forcibly integrated into a provincial sales tax system and part of your receipt has some government segment. Largely because unscrupulous restaurants had, I think they were called “zippers” to perma-erase revenue/transactions. Some EU countries did a “if you don’t get a receipt, you don’t have to pay”, which erased the concept of a bar tab. During a drinking session with friends, yo…
tariffs wouldn't capture anything locally produced.
Which is great!
Give the local producers of any size a bit of subsidy instead a dog’s breakfast of programs to accomplish the same with a ton of friction.
Probably wouldn’t work well in China, but here in Canada…