Tax doesn’t have to be taxing. Just boring
Cat and I went to see Her Majesty in her Revenue and Customs office in Derby. We had signed up to a workshop on Paying Expenses and Benefits to Employees. Basically we wanted to learn what did and did not class as a valid business expense etc. All useful stuff when you run a business.
There were about 6 people in the workshop, and I have no idea how useful they found it, but certainly Cat and I thought it was a waste of time. The guy running the course was a tax man, who had no presentation skills, who worked from his own notes which bore little or no reference to ours. So the notes we have are either useless, or what he was telling us was not important.
We arrived about 5 minutes late due to an accident on the dual carriageway so I thought that was why nothing made sense and it seemed like we’d turned two pages at once. However it soon became clear that was not the case. I really was disappointed as some of the other courses we’ve attended, including the most recent one on email marketing, were absolutely superb.
It did tell me one thing though, and that is that I want to teach something, or present a course of some sort. If only to do a better job than the tax man 