Taxi Driver Online

I've just taken another look and before you get to the form filling bit, you need to click to show the type of business you have ie company, self employed etc and that then changes the question boxed you need to complete.


Bill

I also have a problem in that business rates are only paid on part of the premises the rest are occupied by me and reading the government guidance that makes me ineligible. I have also seen mention of a rates holiday for businesses but i didn't get offered that either

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Do you have The Business Rates account number Yes or no

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

shafted both ways then

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We are hopeful that the Government may change the criteria. We will have to wait and see.

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Grandad,

Indeed, don't know if South Kesteven District Council have changed the form, but section 4 says:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/Response ... xJSUo2Ny4u


Which is easy enough - if you business is not registered as a company then you just enter 'X'.

Section 3 perhaps slightly trickier:


But I can't see anything which suggests that the support is dependent on the type of business entity - ie sole trader, partnership or limited company.

And I don't think a sole trader has to be registered with Companies House - I'm certainly not, and although I'm just an owner-driver, you could have a substantial business operated as a sole trader.

So I don't know if that's just a minor error on the SKDC form. But as Edders seems to be the only potential applicant on here, and he says he's not eligible because of the rates situation, then it's all academic.

But that's the bottom line - eligibility is based on the payment of rates, not whether the business is a sole trader, partnership, limited company or even a plc.


Maybe I'm missing something, but can't see that, Bill - is that on the SKDC website, or elsewhere?

This is the relevant SKDC page here, and it just directs you to the form I've linked to above:

https://investsk.co.uk/businessgrants/

Problem perhaps as usual that the Westminster Government has set the rules, but is leaving it to individual local authorities to administer it. So we'll now have 300+ local authorities all designing their own application forms, which will all be slightly different, and some may have errors or be misleading in some way.

And many of these local authority websites are difficult enough to navigate at the best of times, but with all the Covid-19 stuff now tacked on - and tacked in a bit of a hurry, no doubt - it's all become a whole lot worse

How do you work that out?

The official Government page was updated on 14 April (almost three weeks after the original version), and it doesn't say anything about a different timescale. It just repeats the original timetable, as I understand it:


I suspect the delay for applications is because they'll want to do all the legwork to get it up and running by mid-May, and so they're aiming to pay the grants in June.

At a rough guess I think the grants will be made almost automatically for most applicants, in order that they can get the cash out fairly quickly. And that any questions will come at a later date

So I wouldn't be too pessimistic about the timescale at this stage.

Or at least I'm not, because I'm assuming the payments will be made in June so I don't have to go grovelling to the landlord about the rent. Again

Do not think payments will start in June,most likely will still be waiting at turn of the year,no money left in pot for taxi drivers.

This will all be borrowed money anyway my contention is that there will be 5 million applications to be individually vetted so either they will need every inland revenue staff member working 24/7 on it or it will take a lot longer than 2 weeks.

there may well be a few getting payments in June but I am being realistic and assuming it will take 3 months to deal with the numbers

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I am pretty sure that the vetting will be done by computer with only a small number being checked manually. Don't forget all of your tax returns will already be in the system and provided your claim is in line with what you have submitted the payment will come out very quick.
The rates grant is being turned around in days in most cases.
The furloughed employee grant can be claimed from today and is expected to be paid within 6 days.
Mind you I haven't got into the site yet.

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Grandad,

Having taken further advice from the FSB I have filled the form in by putting an x in each of the required fields that don't apply. I'm still not sure that I qualify but filled the form in anyway and we'll see what transpires


PS Grandad I think that your landlord can apply on your behalf BUT it might be that the whole building is above the 51000 rateable value threshold so although split into individual units may not be eligible

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Did you get a reference number?

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Yes, the rateable value of the business park is well in excess of the £51,000 threshold. There are 107 businesses operating out of there.

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Grandad,

That is why I am saying that the Bricks and mortar Grant is not enough for this trade

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Don't think it is for any trade but it's what is on offer

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