We also had a VAT inspection two years later, where the Inspector didnāt really know the answer but went with the one we hadnāt followed, which resulted in a fine. Bastards.
I have two tactics for PAYE inspections
First talk to them for as long as possible - they have a day / morning for their visit, the longer they are talking to me the less time they are looking at the books
The second is to make sure there is something small that they can get excited about and go back to base reporting they got a win
And so it begins Starmer suspends 7 MPās from the whip for voting with the SNP for the removal of the 2 child cap
To be fair Labour said it would only be changed if it was properly costed - which it hasnāt been yet 
GPs are going to work to rule which could mean up to a third less GP appointments. BMA didnāt waste any time muscling their way to the trough. Probably an unintended consequence of putting VAT on school fees.
Good luck selling this one to the public - most GPs are partners in their practice and earn 140 to 150k per year and a huge number only do 3 days a week.
3 days a week for Ā£90k - thatās good yakka.
A quick google (other search engines are available) tellingly only brought up The Torygraph saying theyāre voting on whether to cut appointments by a third - thatāll probably be the number of missed appointments per day
Remember, like anyone else they are workers and entitled to protest and nothing to do with VAT on independent schools
The politics of envy on earnings? 
3 days a week? How many GPs do that?
Late edit - itās actually most Consultants who do 3 days NHS, the rest private which they then fill with private healthcare policy work ( taking them away from the NHS & those who arguably need assistance most because they canāt afford it is OK, right?) This sits well with you, right?
Ironically as Iāve said many times I do a lot of work in the PMI sector and am increasingly uncomfortable with the politics (mind you itās becoming so expensive that firms are cancelling cover 
)
I know - ours went up ridiculously this year
It is almost already unaffordable
At least half of the Totton healthcare lot
And our dentist - you get to see them at their convenience
This is throw back to when the NHS was set up - the doctors fought tooth and nail to keep their private practises on the side.
And itās been like it ever since
Thereās definitely some serious profiteering- but medical inflation and everyone piling in to get around the NHS waiting times is ironically making thing worse both NHS and Private
My dentist keeps cancelling to the extent Iāve asked to be moved to someone else in the practice 
My local GP practice is in probably one of the most affluent areas in the SE but private appointments are like finding rocking horse shit.
Quicker to get a normal appointment 
(or go through a virtual GP appointment from one of my firms employee benefits- but that is with a GP taking time off from their normal workā¦ oh, wait 
These virtual GPs are going to get clamped down on - whenever anyone needs a PMI referral they call one of these and get it within 30 minutes
The insurers are beginning to cotton on and I reckon they will soon require you to see your GP first
And donāt get me started on virtual GPs and fit to work letters
Funnily enough VGPs when they first started were a godsend esp during / post Covid.
Insurers who offer āfreeā access to a VGP as a group insurance value added benefit at no additional cost pay a fee for X times number of consultations, but the numbers utilising them are higher than expected - making the free model less viable.
Sending someone to their own GP first makes no sense. They may as well withdraw the VGP service.
These days youāre very lucky if you see someone within 30mins tbf
Who is going to be the first provider to charge or pull the product? That wonāt be popular.
As to people abusing it, to get fit notes - yep.
The GPs like in the real world are limited in time and have a contractual time limit for each consultation so will do what ever to get the numbers through the system. Iāve had staff blatantly misusing it and seeing them healthy on social media - disciplinaryā¦.
Anyway, if your firm needs advice then mine can help @ reasonable rates of course
Itās a sad day when they canāt even afford a proper clinic.
Ā£20bn blackhole in the finances about to be announced - reckon that is the last of the paving of the way to the tax rises.
Some of the public sector employer contributions to pensions is as much as 30%. I wonder how many public sector workers would accept say 10% more pay in exchange for reduced pensions
ā¦as long as the keep paying Lady Slowlaneās and mine. 
Uhmā¦ 20bn versus typical annual budget of 1200bn or so (we pay about 116bn in interest servicing our trillions if debtā¦) is less that 1.6%
IF all the fucking (mostly tory) tax avoiders actually paid what they should this would be easily plugged and more with more to spareā¦
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Good grief - the deficit is down to the Tories - and it needs to be fixed by Labour. You get this, right?
That Labour is currently uncovering years of mismanagement hidden by the Tories should be something worth applauding not taking irrelevant pot shots about pension contributions that impact few people.
If everyone paid their taxes (as mentioned by @Map-of-Mauritania ) then perhaps there wouldnāt be so much of an issue.
If taxes need to go up to fix the problem created by the tories then those who support(ed) their policies need to give their head a wobble rather than moan about Labour having to fix the mess.
IMHO obviously
Are you Rishi in disguise?
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1816903414636261712?t=FpIQEYVEBM0xxi-CsVgIwg&s=19
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