Paying tax

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warning girls and boys many years ago when I was younger so much younger than today I done the first is a bit of work in the United Kingdom in England and I went to the South of France and did three seasons three summer seasons working down there and life was good but being a sensible sort of person I had to get back to reality so I went back to England to do something sensible and responsible and establish my life somewhere so the thought of working for somebody was I don’t think it really ever entered my head Aga certainly wouldn’t have looked in the wherever one looked at those times to find a job it was never my way so I did something for myself another when many things I could do at that time because I had done much at school hadn’t done much after-school and are my experience in the South of France didn’t really lead me to a great open expanses of wonderfulness but I love painting as in painting in painting and decorating strangely any sort of painting I’ve always loved it but it’s artistic or just on a war skirting board always loved it so I taught myself to hang wallpaper and can’t think what else am painting and decorating is beside hanging wallpaper in painting mainly painting and kind of setup on my own and used my contacts in any contacts I could think of at the golf club in the sailing club to get work and I did that for just over a year I was doing quite well I had anti-of work to do the last couple of jobs I had one person working for me one job to Mo to people working for me with me are in the last job and there was a big contract coming up where I would’ve needed six or seven other people in other chances are I would have got like job because of my arm not what you know how to do but who you know and through summary at the golf club I would certainly got that job but through somebody at the sailing club who was an accountant I sat down with and bought some drinks for and got some free advice on accounting and got to learn all about paying taxes which I haven’t really given too much consideration to up until that point are just the regular paying taxes was going to be bagged enough according to what this chap told me that then told me about TVA which is VAT arm value-added tax which I apparently had to kind of taking for the government and then pay to the government as well and the whole thing quite frankly seemed to me more trouble than it was worth of always been a bit of am a thinker and worker out of things and so it took me probably another month I didn’t go for that contract at all just didn’t put in for it because I was unsure about my future and then thing that made me the most unsure was this paying taxes thing I got the information of just how much is going to be and I did not like it I can remember can remember what I used to often and on a Thursday evening I is together and have Curry and then walk around the park afterwards often a bit harm drunk with alcohol and I’d even when I go through Curry or even in the pub I’d always have a little notebook and not make notes about this than the other and I was working at how much this tax thing was going to cost me I remember one time I worked out that I would be each year working pain my tax or working for the government until May 10 think it was that was my brother’s birthday that’s why can remember it that think it was about May 10 arm the amount of tax I have to pay so that was one way of looking at it and I remember I am on our the other side of the Tony little notebook but on the other side I’d worked out how the years until retirement which was standard age 65 at that time how many years I would be paying to the government in taxes and it was something like one third of my working life so I would have been what then about 20 really your something back 23 to 2365 is 42 are of taxes were working out of my head to be about one third when everything was taken into account to 1/3 42 is three into four 112 for 14 years 14 years of taxes as be about rights I remember thinking it targeted me my next 14 years of working is going to be working for the government what I was working to pay the government my middle 14 years on my last 14 years now it was this last 14 years that kind of clicked something in my head that went this working thing is it’s so wonderful and then I thought to other people at I dreamt within the pub and it was a strange public was carved into different parts the rich people’s parents would you drink one part of one bar and the younger people could go into that bar obviously but generally had another bar and the corner and sometimes went into the other bar and the back thinking of these people happy do they like doing their work when there are smoking their cigars and drinking their whiskeys in the corner and driving home in their jags and thought while I see them when I go with my friends back to their reasonably large houses they drive their Jaguars and range Rovers and all that sort of stuff in there and I have horses in the backing no well-to-do people and I could see that I couldn’t see that they were having an awful lot of fun so what would I definitely grow the best I could grow into if I paid my taxes and everything worked well as I imagined it would which it probably would cause I was a hard-working person that worked things out and I am sure specially with my contacts always very important that I could have made for a flourishing business which would have properly turned into more design at one time because some have got artistic flair in that department so I was thinking well do I really want to work till age 65 and that the choice was to build up a company so reasonably quickly that then I could semi-retire from work and then the workers could work from me which is what most of my friends parents would be living in situation of the dangers but their sheepskin jacket on and drive to work in the morning I had no idea what they did but I didn’t see it being much all I could try and do something where by I could retire earlier I decided that looking at the stages I be going through in England getting to the stage of the sheepskin jacket and the range Rover and letting other people work for me it wasn’t going to be that spectacular because from where I was I would have two work very very hard and be it it’d be hard work I imagined where I’d live where I’d want to live the stages of bigger houses and better vehicles and all that sort of thing wasn’t dreaming so much as merely imagining how it would be because if I did not make it happen arm it would not I would have just made it happen anyway I decided that all things added up that those last 14 years would be better if I didn’t pay the government and I retired early and then I’ve have only 28 years to work but how was this to be managed it was to be managed by going to the south of France being expatriates and working jobs down there where nobody ever pay tax that would give me and knowledge that a I’d be living in and working in a place which was ultimately desirable getting paid lots of money because people wear down there and not paying any taxes on it and all of this added up to what seemed to be a very good idea so I closed everything up and went to the south of France was quite lucky that I got a job very quickly and before I knew it I was established and doing quite well LOADS of middle bits is no need further extra middle bits but what it came to pass to be was that I could talk to you on the inter-web is now as a retired person at age what am I now 58 802 so I must be 54 and I haven’t been officially working for well on while now and it’s all worked out really rather well regrets about not paying taxes it’d be unrealistic of me to sit here and say that I regret these decisions and regrets avoiding paying my share of taxes having my heart operation with the French government paying for it has made me think a lot more about it and home I don’t know how you just can’t go back into the past so you can’t consider your decisions are have considers and future decisions but that doesn’t really come into it but all in all from the decisions I made back aged 23 that I was obviously not what you might call a socially responsible person knows ideas of paying ones are share of the advantages that I was going to accrue from our things at the government or government of the world have done for me and are avoiding paying them as opposed to going out of my way to pay them and makes me what could definitely be described as a socially irresponsible people person and not the sort of person that you would want to vote for in any sort of a social position I am a self are established as cast and must and should live in her an outcast position which makes it a bit tricky because I’m not in an outcast position I am plugged now into the French system and they are willing to pay for me and does really nothing much I can do to recompense all the past taxes that I have avoided paying might consider doing something in the future but the really is nothing much I can do all be said is the bottom line I am a socially irresponsible person not fit for any sort of public office had shipped by