Courier Business Stuff

http://www.intrans.it/

The free version seems fine as far as it goes – if you’re only ever going to want something just to keep your bookings and invoicing in order then it seems well up to the job. It seems quite expensive when you start adding the extra features and extra users though. 
 

Posted under Booking Software

someone wrote:
“what other product is over 50% tax?

Anything else taxed to this level would simply be given up!
fags, booze etc

(saying that I dunno what % of duty is on them Anyone?)”

Prepare to be shocked. I’m not sure how much cigarettes cost at the moment but I’m guessing around £5.50 for 20? Based on that:

82p is VAT, £2.17 goes on duty at 10.865p per cigarette and then a further £1.21 goes on the 22% duty charged on the final retail price.

So £4.20 out of your £5.50 goes towards lowering my income tax bill. 

Alcohol duty isn’t as bad but it’s still £7.82 duty on a 1 litre bottle of 40% alcohol, plus the VAT on the retail price. So for a £12 (?) bottle that’s £7.82 duty and £1.79 VAT – £9.61 total.

Posted under Protests & Strikes

Red diesel is currently around 47p/litre plus VAT, in bulk. You can’t claim the VAT back (obviously) so that’s 55p/litre. You won’t be able to offset that 55p/litre against tax so that pushes the effective price up to 70p/litre. Pump price for normal diesel is currently around 89p/litre plus VAT.

At 30 mpg your fuel cost per mile covered will be 13.5p on normal diesel and 10.5p or red.

I somehow don’t think that a cost differential of 3p/mile could account for a 50% price differential in the other courier’s rate. They’re just operating to a different business model to you.

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Bren (from Norflex) wrote:
Ive PM’d you Andrew.

Dont worry, I’m not trying to sell to you.

Unless I can charge consultancy fees?

 
Based on what you’ve written on here you’re worth fuck all as a consultant. You’re either very stupid or you’re making the assumption that everyone else on here is; which is it?

Capital allowances only apply during the time you own the van, once it’s disposed of then any further reduction in value is reclaimable against tax.

So in your scenario, if the van is worth £11,500 less at the time of disposal then that’s exactly what is claimable against taxable profits, less any capital allowances already claimed. Any interest payments are also fully tax-deductable.

Your ‘explanation’ of GRT is the biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever read. You’re selling a flexible rental product, not lease or contract hire – how can you possibly seek to justify charging your users a vehicle’s on the road costs as an up-front one-off fee? The big selling point of your product is the flexibility to change from one vehicle to another. You’re saying that in order to keep this option open they have to pay you an extra £156 per year (60p/day) or pay the £50 fee up front? If they change vehicles after paying this £50 do subsequent users of the vehicle not get charged the 60p/day?

You come across as a typical salesman telling half truths in an effort to baffle your customers.

Posted under Vans