Stranger things have happened, but I suspect it's game over for that one.

Yeah, there's no remote so tried the channel buttons

could be with trying an electrician or something, if it might just be one part that's bust??

regmcfly wrote:

Yeah, there's no remote so tried the channel buttons

No other buttons on it? Check for a hidden panel.  Surprised if there isn't a source button unless it's really old.

Induction vs Inducement (@tinrobot)

My wife is due to be induced on Tuesday. She keeps referring to it as an induction. That sounds wrong to me, I think it should be referred to as an inducement. This is obviously incredibly important (but only if I am right) so any help from the B&B grammer/English experts would be appreciated.

Induction sounds like she is going to a conference centre to give birth.

Finger crossing here

They're very obstrinate.

Nah. You can take the socket off and have a look, but it doesn't really prove anything. It might look the part but have a break somewhere down the line. Whatever you do, don't piss about with the juice on

tin_robot wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

Induction vs Inducement (@tinrobot) My wife is due to be induced on Tuesday. She keeps referring to it as an induction. That sounds wrong to me, I think it should be referred to as an inducement. This is obviously incredibly important (but only if I am right) so any help from the B&B grammer/English experts would be appreciated.

Whilst we would say that labour is induced, the process is still described as an induction. I agree "inducement" would make grammatical sense, but, well, that's obstetricians for you.

I hope all goes well on Tuesday - if not sooner.

Thanks for the clarification Tin, it's not important now though, the little monkey decided he didn't want to wait after all.

Yeah, I'll post an update in the appropriate thread.

Congrats!

I'm in the process of setting up a website and starting to work as a general freelance writer for hire. Even though I don't live in the UK, and likely won't for a while, I was wondering whether it would make sense to register as a business there, just to make it look official for potential clients, and have proper accounts.

I'm probably going to be moving around in the next few years (if Covid ever gets sorted) and there's not much point trying to do anything official in N Cyprus, so it seems to be the only country that would make sense as a base, even though I'm rarely there. It's going to be small earner, so I guess I won't be paying much tax, if any.

Does this make sense at all? Is it worth it? Is it even possible if you don't live in the country (I do have an address I can use, but don't want to lie about living there)?

I'll do some research myself of course, but thought it might make sense to start here.

Funk has covered off most of the company stuff. Little tips would be:

Don’t buy stuff you want to keep personally, on the company (I have friends who buy consoles and TV’s on the company as they can save a bit of money, but you don’t technically own it and if there was ever an issue you’d lose whatever was bought through the company). 

Get some basic accounting software once you get going, I use FreeAgent, mainly because it connects straight to my business bank account through a feed. That means I don’t have to worry about filing manually any income or expenses, I just have to tie it up in the software. Works really well and is a time saver.

Do look at home office tax breaks you can get, it’s not a lot, but it all adds up. You can claim a percentage of rent, utilities and phone etc.

Once you get going and if you start to get bigger clients, they may want business insurance, but it’s fairly cheap, just another cost to consider, think I used to pay £20 a month for about $3m liability.

Look for free business banking deals, preferably for more than a year.

I’d definitely recommend an accountant once you start to earn regularly, they are worth their money, use takes away a lot of pain, expect to pay around £1,000 a year for them to handle all your tax stuff.

OK. This is all great. Thanks.

How does tax work with your own business BTW? I mean, do you pay yourself a wage that's taxed as income tax? Or does everything you take in (minus expenses) count as profit? And how his profit taxed compared to income?

Apologies if these are stupid questions - you can tell I know nothing. I just wanted some basics before digging deeper.