Darkness is Upon Us…
// March 25th, 2010 // Papa J News
Well darkness is upon us guys…or atleast the end of the financial year! Now for all businesses and self employed people it is crunch time.
For most it will be a simple job of handing over the gruelling job of end of year accounts to their accountants. However for Papa J’s it will be myself and Dave doing it. We don’t want to, but we can’t afford to hire an accountant…the joys of being skint music promoters who can’t even afford a tin of beans!!
Anyway I started the end of year accounts and have got about half of it done. Just waiting on some codes and then I can complete it. What I’m really struggling with is HMRC (the Tax man!) use jargon which normal people like myself find difficult to understand. Also what’s bloody annoying is they repeat questions over and over. You think to yourself I answered that back 3 sections ago your arse!! And that all you’ve done is phrased it in a different more confusing way!!
I really wish that the tax man would make a simple end of year returns form. Simple boxes saying we made -£…… (yes that is a minus sign), we paid this much PAYE (pay as you earn…tax) and paid this much National Insurance. (yeh I know what’s the point NHS are pretty shit and pension is worthless!)
They just don’t make it simple for new businesses, and especially businesses that are struggling.
Here’s something I’ll let you in on. Me and Dave are absolutely skint right now. I mean have zero. And we developed the equipment and stuff we have over the course of years. We decided to go into this full time because we really believe it can work. However the tax man, and other government institutions make it harder for people who do not have money behind them to succeed. Everything comes at a price, and the tax man finds all sorts of new charges to throw onto you so that you can’t move up the social ladder.
Anyway enough of my rant; this blog is filled with far too much bitchiness. I’m happy I’m playing a gig tonight with Hannah White tonight (www.myspace.com/songsbyhannah) which shall be a really good laugh. Also got everything up and running and possibly some orders!
Talk to you soon on happier topics!
Keiron
