Works Xmas parties - any shenanigans?
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The £150 is an up to amount. You can't go for a pint and expense £150 (unfortunately)
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and that's up to £150 that can be offset against tax so actually only 20 or 40% of that (unless I'm doing it wrong).
Can you really do this as a self-employed one man band Trading As non Ltd?
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Assuming you can get a receipt would hookers and/or blow be tax deductible?
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Only if your a member of Parliament or the Lords ......
In a previous life ..... Was handed about £2.5k cash to take the team out (men only) Concensus was off to the Bar after work and then onto Majingoes @ Canary Wharf (Exotic Dance club .....) Didn't partake just handing over cash for the dirty herberts !!
Mr-B said:
Assuming you can get a receipt would hookers and/or blow be tax deductible?
You may not be aware, but most gentlemen’s clubs are usually registered as “So and So Bar and Kitchen” for this (and other) purposes-your VAT Invoice can be stealthily put through accounts when in fact it’s actually “Legs 11 Lapdancing Club” trading as.LaurasOtherHalf said:
You may not be aware, but most gentlemen’s clubs are usually registered as “So and So Bar and Kitchen” for this (and other) purposes-your VAT Invoice can be stealthily put through accounts when in fact it’s actually “Legs 11 Lapdancing Club” trading as.
Anderson Consulting (or it may have become Accenture by that point) issued a memo many years ago saying that receipts from "Tottenham Court Bar & Grill" would no longer be accepted. True story. I think.
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Mr-B said:
Assuming you can get a receipt would hookers and/or blow be tax deductible?
You may not be aware, but most gentlemen’s clubs are usually registered as “So and So Bar and Kitchen” for this (and other) purposes-your VAT Invoice can be stealthily put through accounts when in fact it’s actually “Legs 11 Lapdancing Club” trading as.
Vaud said:
bobtail4x4 said:
I know him, no music in his pubs etc, he was worried the temporary bridge would become a permanent footbridge.
He rents houses to old folk at a shilling a week.
Spends thousands on vanity projects in Tadcaster then rents them out for next to nothing,
New shop businesses get half rent for a few years to get established,
I'm sure he does good stuff. He strikes me as a bit like Titus Salt, but maybe in need of an update in thinking for the wider good...He rents houses to old folk at a shilling a week.
Spends thousands on vanity projects in Tadcaster then rents them out for next to nothing,
New shop businesses get half rent for a few years to get established,
It hardly seems "right" to allow pubs to sit empty because the landlord isn't married. And yes, our local is/was Sam Smiths and can't find a landlord so it sits empty and the villager take their money elsewhere...
Anyway, I'm derailing this thread so I'll take my rant elsewhere
ApOrbital said:
Halmyre said:
ApOrbital said:
and a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof
Proper Bud or that American rubbish?
Am I doing it right?
Du1point8 said:
ApOrbital said:
Halmyre said:
ApOrbital said:
and a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof
Proper Bud or that American rubbish?Am I doing it right?
slipstream 1985 said:
Im interested to hear both sides. our compnay class you as "representing the company" so you are liable for things, but I recon you are not being paid and it is nothing to do with the company just everyone who works there happens to be at the bar, pub , hall
The company is legally responsible for your conduct at "work related parties". As another poster noted you can be considered to be bringing the company into disrepute in public however the company is also liable for your actions if they lay on a party/course etc One other thing to think about is even if where you are is nothing to do with work, it is possible to bring your company into disrepute and suffer disciplinary actions. It is rare, but possible.
As a person, I consider it part of work - I have previously used such events to network and had some good results from a works do.
As to the answer to the OP - in my old firm two married people were found in a room, enjoying themselves.... This resulted in two divorces and one baby.....And one marriage..... Also one bloke at a different party opted to striptease in the middle of the dance floor for some reason, he was old and fat and balding, I don't think his routine got him a nice lady......
smack said:
Backtobasics said:
A Christmas party from some years ago I can talk about however that ended pretty badly. I worked in a fin serv firm and different departments rarely mixed, contact centre staff and administration staff were two such areas. No love lost between the two resulted in a few harsh words and the odd push on the hotel dance floor as the 5th pint of brave juice was sunk. I left at this point.
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So after the 4th riot van turns up it all gets stopped, the following meetings and dismissals kept HR, Management and Union reps busy for just over a month.
It wasn't a company in Harrogate and back 7 or 8 years ago?....
So after the 4th riot van turns up it all gets stopped, the following meetings and dismissals kept HR, Management and Union reps busy for just over a month.
My first Christmas do in a professional role after uni. It was a before 12 start and the beer was flowing well. Around mid-afternoon one of the associate directors was talking to one of the founding directors at the bar. Unfortunately, the associate was a bit worse for wear and threw up all over the founder. After a bit of clearing up drinking continued but people were a bit wary of the associate.
Gary29 said:
I'd say about only 20% of these stories have any shred of truth in them.
If you really think that, then you need to get out more.In the past I have seen (and sometimes experienced) things involving work colleagues that are almost not repeatable on public forum.
The ‘beer bottle’ thing? Perfectly believable in my experience.
I run my own company these days, so thankfully I can’t ever be reprimanded for whatever happens on our work nights out.
Lord Marylebone said:
If you really think that, then you need to get out more.
In the past I have seen (and sometimes experienced) things involving work colleagues that are almost not repeatable on public forum.
The ‘beer bottle’ thing? Perfectly believable in my experience.
I run my own company these days, so thankfully I can’t ever be reprimanded for whatever happens on our work nights out.
I have seen the beer bottle thing at a motorbike rally years ago. Newcastle Brown if I remember, it wasn't Christmas though In the past I have seen (and sometimes experienced) things involving work colleagues that are almost not repeatable on public forum.
The ‘beer bottle’ thing? Perfectly believable in my experience.
I run my own company these days, so thankfully I can’t ever be reprimanded for whatever happens on our work nights out.
Had some pretty good work parties back when I was a graduate (and single), mostly involving graduates from other regional offices. Was always careful not to be a dick in front of senior management though unlike a few, one in particular who groped a Senior Director and didn't stay at the company much longer.
I started working for smaller companies shortly into my career so they were always less raucous events.
Now I run my own business and we're going for an Italian and a few beers next Thursday. It'll be perfectly civilised.
I started working for smaller companies shortly into my career so they were always less raucous events.
Now I run my own business and we're going for an Italian and a few beers next Thursday. It'll be perfectly civilised.
sc0tt said:
Why do people say they have a crazy story that cannot be repeated on a forum?
Indeed. Its pretty anonymous. At ours a few years ago, I got very drunk and hit on a pair of sisters a few years younger than I, after failing with the first one, and then trying my luck with the second I failed there as well. Their parents (who also worked for the same company and were at the event) were not impressed. Luckily one lad decided to set fire to his car in an attempted insurance scam. By comparison getting a bit drunk and horny was saintly. The lad who set fire to his car only came back to the office to empty his desk.
Not a fan of office parties at any time.
I think that this year, I will sit in my long nightshirt and floppy white cotton hat by my gently flickering candle with my hand written ledger and quill pen balancing the bags of gold coins, battering any child carol singers who dare to make an unearthly racket standing in the snow at my door and off to bed with a hot cocoa. Bah humbug!
On the other hand, could possibly have a good night out with my lovely missus and some friends.
I think that this year, I will sit in my long nightshirt and floppy white cotton hat by my gently flickering candle with my hand written ledger and quill pen balancing the bags of gold coins, battering any child carol singers who dare to make an unearthly racket standing in the snow at my door and off to bed with a hot cocoa. Bah humbug!
On the other hand, could possibly have a good night out with my lovely missus and some friends.
Vaud said:
sc0tt said:
Why do people say they have a crazy story that cannot be repeated on a forum?
I think a surprising number of PHers work at the same/similar companies or know the same people. But I agree, it is odd.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff