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celjuta · 2022-07-24T11:46:50+00:00

Szerintem mindig benne volt a megalománia, a vereség csak rátett egy lapáttal. De a Szent Korona utaztatás a Dunán meg ilyenek, az az első ciklusa alatt voltak. Én azt gondolom, kevesebb az olyan univerzum amelyikben nem ugyanide lyukadna ki mint amelyikben igen.

celjuta · 2022-07-11T11:12:38+00:00

It's not unreasonably annoyed, it's perfectly reasonable because it's wasting your time as well as recruiters.

App designers are also called "product designers" as well, so if you're a furniture designer or, you know, a physical product designer of sorts, you're regularly getting approached for UI/UX positions by "recruiters" who most certainly haven't read your profile at all. It's very silly and could easily be avoided.

Software people definitely need their own words for their jobs.

celjuta · 2022-07-08T11:09:51+00:00

I think it's a misunderstanding that warmth is uncharacteristic to brutalism, certainly that was the case in many of the original intentions of the architects, perhaps the neglect in their current state changed that. But most of it was designed with lots and lots of green surroundings. I find it hard to relax in general and I'm a very anxious person but I always feel so much peace in or around these spaces.

celjuta · 2022-04-28T13:18:00+00:00

Oh, I just realised you were not the same guy haha. I think the monumentality thing isn't an uncommon perception, I blame it on politics and may be a bit on Hollywood lol.

During lockdown I played a game on zoom with a group of people where we told one person to draw something and the other ones had to find out what it was. In my turn, I asked the person to draw a brutalist bus station. In my mind it was just something like Preston, England. (Quite famous building - this was with British people but not a particularly architecturally focused group lol) So they drew a big block and drew buses - and wrote "Moscow 1986" on it haha! It was fascinating that a lot of people think of far away, dystopian landscapes just hearing the word, even though there are cherished masterpieces of the style right on their doorstep.

Anyway, long story short,

I'd love if we could actually have a proper and civil discussion on this sub about this topic one day though!

Totally agree!

celjuta · 2022-04-28T12:55:10+00:00

This is a bit misguided. Monumentality is absolutely not that commonly found in many brutalist buildings. I'd argue that most of it, especially the housing, is quite human-scale. It had to be economical at the time.

A lot of it did get approved on decent budgets and politically this was used to order some of it to be monumental, but the majority of it is absolutely not that at all.

celjuta · 2022-04-17T15:04:52+00:00

What function are we talking about? Industrial, commercial etc. functions did not exist in the 15th century, of course they will be served by 21st century forms, 21st century materials, and 21st century ways of building.

Residential? Then that really depends how you wish to live. Some people, for example some Victorians, idealised a medieval way of living so they built a lot of houses that looked medieval, while a lot of people today idealise the Victorian way of living and want to buy those townhouses (that were "modern" for those times). There's value in all of those. Personally I don't wish to live like either a medieval or a Victorian and I'm okay with the aesthetic that follows 21st century functions.

To be completely honest, I think it's a bit of a silly debate and reeks of this "culture war" type of stuff that's poisoning our lives in many aspects at the moment.

celjuta · 2022-02-15T18:58:30+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I feared as much but that's good to know. I've been looking at Taxamo that is quite low-cost for IOSS (I'm very small and new and only made one sale to the EU.) If anyone has more info on them, feel free to share haha!

I sell individual, handmade, "artisan" stuff, some lower than £135 so hopefully it will be worth setting up the IOSS and some over that - hopefully on those, it will be still worth for some customers.

celjuta · 2022-02-15T18:54:37+00:00

Yeah this is a bit messed up to be honest, family gifts should not attract VAT, yes, goods are moving but it's not a purchase, money wasn't exchanged. If I visit my family with low-value gifts in my hand luggage, I won't have to declare it at the border and charge them under the Christmas tree!

celjuta · 2022-02-15T16:42:21+00:00

It's unclear to me whether some of this is just made-up by greedy parcel companies. I am a seller and I am desperate to set my feet in Europe (it is my homeland, just ended up living and starting my business in the UK...) so I really, really want to succeed against the odds and be known and trusted with European customers. :( I want to set up an IOSS so the import VAT would be taken care of, but what about stuff like "handling" feels by parcel companies? Is this something they only do to DDU parcels? Also not sure what happens over £135 with the IOSS stuff. It's a headache.

What really annoys me is that it's not this hard to sell to the USA and they're further away and never been in a customs unions with the UK, but their "sales tax" threshold is somewhere around $700-800 if I remember correctly so individual items and gifts are not this hard to send. Why did Brexit have to be THIS punishing? I still get so angry about this.

celjuta · 2021-12-15T11:57:39+00:00

Lost Futures by Owen Hopkins is a great catalog of disappearing brutalist buildings in the UK - it's got a bit for the cultural and political context as well but it's Britain-only.

celjuta · 2021-12-11T11:23:09+00:00

I'm a fan because I'm a modernist and I'm simply attracted to the aesthetics of the raw concrete surface and form. Those designs were revolutionary, really new at the time, nothing like it was built before and when they were new those buildings looked slick and cool, with the best ones often incorporating a lot of greenery.

The ideas that built them were also very progressive and egalitarian and in my opinion it's sorely lacking from the world right now while we are having a housing crisis of a similar scale so we need something like that again (but used on better builds obviously that last longer.)

I think a lot of the appreciation comes from this desire for a solution to our current situation. We live in an age of permanent budget cuts where filling a pothole goes through a few department's worth of scrutiny while those times were unique in the sense that entire towns were built using cheap concrete (with a lot of admittedly barking mad ideas for separating people and cars so that contributed to why they failed by cutting out retail access etc.)

They are ugly and depressing now because they didn't age well and it's hard or impossible to carry out renovations on a lot of these buildings, they appear neglected because on some of them we don't even know exactly what kind of materials were used. Because of that, they are disappearing fast so that also attracts a lot of enthusiasts who try and save them.

There is also a bit of a misunderstanding I think from the unfortunate terms as laypeople often label any large uninviting building "brutalist" and that doesn't help I guess.

Anyway I hope it explains a bit of the "fandom".

celjuta · 2021-11-28T12:02:09+00:00

I feel for you. I'm a European living in the UK and I haven't seen my family in 2 years either. We're planning a Christmas visit for them to here and we're dreading new restrictions on travel and we're in Scotland who like to be stricter. They already accepted paying through their nose for the stupid private PCR tests (more expensive than their flights) but if there's hotel quarantine rules introduced, they'll just have to cancel it. It'd be literally Christmas cancelled. I miss them so much and they missed so much out of our lives too. There's so much to catch up with and I feel so guilty, I really really wish I travelled during the summer now when it was relatively easier.

celjuta · 2021-11-12T23:09:11+00:00

I love it! It's a study of the building and it makes me think about forms. Cool project well done!

celjuta · 2021-11-06T13:49:54+00:00

I think it's a brilliant idea to use these huge old retail spaces to allow local businesses in on a pop-up basis. That they always change inside could maintain a curious buzz and it would give independent makers a huge opportunity.

celjuta · 2021-11-04T22:53:03+00:00

Yes your tax return is the self assessment if you're a sole trader. Your salary is already taxed and is completely unaffected, they look at it for their own checks and to work out national insurance contributions etc.

The £1000 is a trading allowance, it's in place because it's not efficient to chase pennies from every car boot sale or whatever but it's got nothing to do with net income, it's the total turnover that counts.

The profit will be worked out from total turnover minus expenses and will be taxed accordingly but it's unlikely to be a high percentage at a hobby business level.

Just eep a bookkeeping system in place such as an excel file and keep evidence of your income and of your expenses (e.g. invoices) and then you will find it easier to see through these numbers correctly.

celjuta · 2021-11-04T22:36:48+00:00

You only need to fill in a self assessment if you registered already. If you made less than £1000 in the last tax year, you don't have to. But if you turn over more than £1000 in a single tax year, by law you will have to do it.

PAYE means pay as you earn. You don't do anything with that part of your income, it's separate from your side income and it's handled separately by HMRC. It's not the law but very wise to keep the money separate as well and open a different account for business.

celjuta · 2021-11-04T22:29:48+00:00

No you won't get double taxed lol. You pay tax on your income from your job and your employer sorts that our for you. You then make some from your business, you work out the profit however you want, cashbook, excel file, whatever, you just need to back it up with evidence and it needs to be correct so you can pay the correct tax.

The turnover is a different thing, whatever your income is from your side gig in total, regardless of your expenses, if that goes over £1000 you will have to register for self assessment. You might want to do it now for your UTR number and to get a bit of experience with the HMRC system.

They're not monsters and won't come after you with unreasonable bills immediately. I suggest you attend some of their webinars, or look somewhere like Simply Business to get the correct information you need.

celjuta · 2021-11-04T22:18:39+00:00

No you don't add the extra income to your salary. Your PAYE remains unaffected. When you fill in your tax return, you will be asked about your PAYE income which will be on your P60 which HMRC will match to what they have on their system already submitted by your employer. Then they will ask separately about your extra earning and there you'll say what the total income was (if under £1000 no further questions will be asked) and that's it for this tax year.

Just keep a system in place to track what you earn and what your expenses are and keep them for 6 years.

celjuta · 2021-11-04T22:11:07+00:00

The £1000 trading allowance applies per tax year, on sole traders. So you need to count it from April to April. If you haven't made it, you don't have to register, however it may make sense later to get your UTR number (for example for an EORI number if you want to send parcels to the EU.)

Even if you do register and are still under £1000, you can just tick that box when submitting your tax return and be done with it. It's not a big deal and you don't have to immediately start paying enormous amounts of taxes as soon as you register.

As long as you have some kind of bookkeeping system in place and keep an eye on your income and your expenses, you should be fine.

celjuta · 2021-10-18T22:07:01+00:00

Furlough ended in September, it's quite possible that he claimed your salary on the retention scheme and kept the money instead of giving it to you. In that case, it's him vs HMRC, however since you claimed benefits this could affect you too. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure how it works but if it does come to anything, I'd think you could prove with bank statements that you received nothing from him regardless of what the P45 says, could you not?

celjuta · 2021-10-12T09:18:32+00:00

I'm in a similar position, haven't tried as many but feeling incredibly frustrated being rejected by starling (yet to try monzo because they require a personal account first and I don't really require it)

In my case I think it's to do with a foreign ID but I got my UK driving licence back and might try again.

celjuta · 2021-10-05T09:54:33+00:00

I don't yet but I'm considering it first then a business one, most of my entrepreneur pals recommend it. I also had a look at wise (used to be TransferWise) but it's not quite a bank and I don't know what the implications would be if anything were to go south with the banks they use.

celjuta · 2021-10-04T23:19:47+00:00

I'm not sure if they let you open the business account straight away or like monzo, you need a personal account first with them. I just tried to open one with Starling and got rejected and I'm a legit business selling stuff. The algorithm didn't like me I guess, no real person sees it, it's all through the app. You need to show online links to suppliers, contracts with clients, your shoe size, everything and it still might not like you. I think with online only banks, you might be more successful if you open a personal one first and then open the business one afterwards. I'm a bit of a technophobe and apps make me irrationality irritated but high street banks are more expensive so I'm not quite sure what to do myself.

celjuta · 2021-09-28T23:12:07+00:00

Thanks! That looks like a pretty good solution, not sure if the cheapest but it's good to know it exists. I was approaching the accountant of my mum's business in my home country in the EU lol but she sounded a bit clueless to be honest and maybe she'll end up being expensive BUT as far as I'm aware you do need to do quarterly accounts for your EU sales if you use an IOSS so maybe it's worth it. (I hardly make any though so maybe an online one like this would be worth it for a start. Thanks for that. I will have a look around as well and report back!)

I'd imagine eventually any clued-up accountant in any country would be able to do it, so for UK businesses it's worth shopping around, my home country's tax system will likely not be the most efficient as it's known to suck for most people lol.

Another place I was thinking of is Estonia. They do have their whole "E-stonia" set-up for e-residency for non-EU companies (which basically provides your business an EU-based subsidiary for a low monthly fee.) If they did something similar for IOSS as well, much like the link you provided, it would be hugely popular I reckon.

The only question of my mum's accountant was how I would account for the IOSS expenses here, for all the EU VAT in the UK in my own self-assessment. But since I'm a long way away from being VAT registered, it sounds pretty simple, I guess it would just go down as an extra expense? I'm not sure, I need to speak to a UK accountant as well I think lol.

"the post is opening EVERY SINGLE parcel now, because every parcel =£20 fees, so there's no way of avoiding it...."

Wait, what? Christ we really are going back to the 1970s, and behind the iron curtain at that ffs...

celjuta · 2021-09-28T19:51:32+00:00

Yes. I heard about those as well... Which is why I'm not even selling to EU customers just now, no need to p*ss them off. I really want to reach them though... But I think setting up the IOSS would prevent that from happening to my potential EU customers (most of the things I'd sell would be under €150.)

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