Commute Realities
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Retired
Careful review and getting on the good side of Crew Scheduling
Load of nonsense. Any preferential treatment is likely to get the pilot and the scheduler disciplinary action. I don't believe a commute to LAX is possible on a 777 roster.
Load of nonsense. Any preferential treatment is likely to get the pilot and the scheduler disciplinary action. I don't believe a commute to LAX is possible on a 777 roster.
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Varies!
falconeasydriver
I hate to burst your cunning plan but your passport has little to do with it. Customs and immigration along with the Police use other methods as well as just passports to monitor movements between Countries. I will often visit UK without my passport being swiped. Names and other details are used along with Airline data, all stored on your ticket.
So, unless you're actually travelling under a different alias,which I doubt you are, you're in the system mate.
I hate to burst your cunning plan but your passport has little to do with it. Customs and immigration along with the Police use other methods as well as just passports to monitor movements between Countries. I will often visit UK without my passport being swiped. Names and other details are used along with Airline data, all stored on your ticket.
So, unless you're actually travelling under a different alias,which I doubt you are, you're in the system mate.
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: S E Asia
UK Commuting and HMRC
If you're making frequent trips to/from UK either working or "commuting", and/or your immediate family reside permanently in UK, or even if you simply have accomodation kept available for your use on visits, you really need to get advice on your Non-Resident status, or, at the very least, visit the HMRC website and read the rules about the new HMRC definitions of Non Resident. The rules changed very significantly in April this year, the intention being to "tailor" them to an individuals specific circumstances and move away from the previous "blanket" rules which relied primarily on the number of days spent in UK. There are now many potentially very expensive traps for the unwary, and your nieghbour or best buddy who thinks, or sounds as if, he knows all about it, is probably the last person you should listen to (unless he's an HMRC Inspector or Tax Accountant).
On the topic of HMRC not being able to trace your visits to UK, I was advised several years ago that Gen Dec and Pax Manifest copies all find their way to HMRC. That was pre-911 and at a time when electronic information, monitoring and coordination was much less sophisticated than today, so I'd think it reasonable to assume that there's a very high probability that HMRC can trace your visits without difficulty.
7B
On the topic of HMRC not being able to trace your visits to UK, I was advised several years ago that Gen Dec and Pax Manifest copies all find their way to HMRC. That was pre-911 and at a time when electronic information, monitoring and coordination was much less sophisticated than today, so I'd think it reasonable to assume that there's a very high probability that HMRC can trace your visits without difficulty.
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Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Location, Location
If you have major 'connections' in the UK as part of the new criteria (houses, family etc) you could be eligible for tax spending as little as 45 days in the UK... Or even worse only 23 days business activities there. I'm not sure whether a layover constitutes a working in the UK for 2 days.
If you enter on a different passport it's simply not that easy, as stated above.
If you enter on a different passport it's simply not that easy, as stated above.
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Earth
First of all I think you are giving HMRC a little more credit than they deserve, but fine, make of it what you will.
Regarding different passports, it's quite simple really, I look at the queue's and decide which one I'm going to use, hence the comment.
As for tax, the answer is pay some! don't try and rig the hand in your favour too much.
There are plenty of legal ways to AVOID, not EVADE tax, you just need to know the rules, and more importantly how they are applied. And before anyone asks, no I'm not talking about dummy corporations in Guernsey or any of that self employed rubbish.
Last year HMRC effectively sent me a cheque for about 800 quid, all thanks to depreciation, works and improvements and of course me following the rules, after I had spent about 100 days there, this year I will owe then about 600.
Regarding different passports, it's quite simple really, I look at the queue's and decide which one I'm going to use, hence the comment.
As for tax, the answer is pay some! don't try and rig the hand in your favour too much.
There are plenty of legal ways to AVOID, not EVADE tax, you just need to know the rules, and more importantly how they are applied. And before anyone asks, no I'm not talking about dummy corporations in Guernsey or any of that self employed rubbish.
Last year HMRC effectively sent me a cheque for about 800 quid, all thanks to depreciation, works and improvements and of course me following the rules, after I had spent about 100 days there, this year I will owe then about 600.
Joined: Nov 2013
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From: Barcelona
I commuted GDL-AMS for 2 years. 2 legs, 15 hours plus or minutes each way with connections, 8 hours time difference. Needless to say, I now commute out of BCN. The jet lag and loss of sleep turns you eventually into a raging arsehole. Couple a long haul schedule with this, it does not end happily.
