There speaks someone who isn't self employed. And HMRC are moving towards quarterly bills with making tax digital. However HMRC being HMRC have made a total F******* of it. Along with the messed up IR35 regulations it's a melting pot of crap.

But with a 30% withholding tax herein lies the issue.

I send you a bill for £20k. I've got £20k of profit and the tax that comes associated with it.

However until you pay me I've got no cash.

Yes they should in an ideal world put a withholding tax on it like in the construction industry, but bearing in mind the amount of s*** genuine small businesses are having to put up with then the last thing you need to do is make life harder for them.

It won't hit people who evade tax (via cash in hand) as you will then be expecting householders (Joe Public) to deduct 30% and what are the odds of that getting paid over.

It won't affect the big companies as they will be exempt.

So what you will hit is the genuine self employed persons who are already at breaking point.

Personally I'd go for flat taxation system - and that's from someone who makes his living because tax is complicated.

When do you think the EU will get around to abolishing self-employment?

Vibrant and diverse I understand. A fine example of multi-culturalism in action with no 'community' problems whatsoever.

I haven't been in Thornton Heath for 20 years (apart from some Palace games). Any journalists been murdered by the local mafia lately?

In my experience of living in several EU countries, no more than anywhere else and often much less. The UK really does have an 'us and them' mentaity, one of the reasons I decided to move my family away all those years ago. My friends who still live there say it's much, much worse now. Still, you obviously fit in very well there and like it

I haven't been in Thornton Heath for 20 years (apart from some Palace games). Any journalists been murdered by the local mafia lately?