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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:06 pm  
Big Graeme wrote:
A profits warning means they got their forecasts wrong, if they are doing badly I'd like to be a quid or two behind them.

And clearly they wouldn't, the could use a little of their profit to cover this.


Tesco is hardly suffering from under-investment.


Have you edited my post!? I wrote (or intended to!) "...in their terms."

They are suffering from under-investment - or at least they feel they are - as they are talking of spending hunddred's of millions revamping their shabby stores.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:07 pm  
Mintball wrote:
He didn't suggest that.

He suggested that they pay their tax bill.

Just like you or I have to do.


They clearly have paid their tax "bill" otherwise HMRC would be taking recovery proceedings.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:10 pm  
Dally wrote:
Have you edited my post!? I wrote (or intended to!) "...in their terms."

They are suffering from under-investment - or at least they feel they are - as they are talking of spending hunddred's of millions revamping their shabby stores.


LOL, you clearly don't understand that supermarkets have a refurb scheduled and any announcement to deflect a less than stellar performance is most welcome. Tesco spend millions on their stores every year, clearly not an under-investment :-)
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:13 pm  
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They clearly have paid their tax "bill" otherwise HMRC would be taking recovery proceedings.

Yes, of course they must.
I mean David Hartnett has never let a company off has he?
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:15 pm  
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They clearly have paid their tax "bill" otherwise HMRC would be taking recovery proceedings.


Or Tesco has taken the defence of, we've got more lawyers than you.
Hardly justice.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:16 pm  
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Yes, of course they must.
I mean David Hartnett has never let a company off has he?


That's not paying the bill (sic)! It means either the money was not due, it was unclear in law that it was due and so HMRC took a "commercial" decision or HMRC were incoompetent. Or, are you saying openly on this public forum that Tesco deliberately evaded part of it's tax liability?
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:17 pm  
Dally wrote:
They pay wages out of income. Income is constrained by what their competitors charge. If supermarkets sold just one prduct, say milk, and Tesco charged £1.50 for a pint and Asda £0.45 how long do think Tesco would last? If it were simply a case of factoring costs into prices then virtually no business / no industry would ever have gone bust!


Wages should be paid from income, which is based on sales. The price of the sales is generally set by including fixed and variable costs in the calculation. When the product is sold, the costs of staff, buildings, rent, rates, utilities should be covered.

Any company that covers rent etc, but not staff in their pricing will clearly need a sale just to pay the people who produce/sell the product in the first place. In your example, Tesco would never be able to pay their staff, as they wouldn't be able to sell any products, let alone make a profit.

Profits can be used as a basis for recruiting more staff, but as I've said, anyone relying on profits to pay staff at the outset is not going to be in business for long.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:19 pm  
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Wages should be paid from income, which is based on sales. The price of the sales is generally set by including fixed and variable costs in the calculation. When the product is sold, the costs of staff, buildings, rent, rates, utilities should be covered.

Any company that covers rent etc, but not staff in their pricing will clearly need a sale just to pay the people who produce/sell the product in the first place. In your example, Tesco would never be able to pay their staff, as they wouldn't be able to sell any products, let alone make a profit.

Profits can be used as a basis for recruiting more staff, but as I've said, anyone relying on profits to pay staff at the outset is not going to be in business for long.


What on Earth are you waffling on about? It is quite clear that pricing cannot just be an arbitrary mark up on costs, it needs to take account of the market place. That's one of the main reasons why efficient businesses survive and less eficient ones go under.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:22 pm  
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That's not paying the bill (sic)! It means either the money was not due, it was unclear in law that it was due and so HMRC took a "commercial" decision or HMRC were incoompetent. Or, are you saying openly on this public forum that Tesco deliberately evaded part of it's tax liability?

I am saying that your logic is seriously flawed.
You say that HMRC would be chasing Tesco if they hadn't paid their "bill", therefore they must have paid.
I say not necessarily ... as we have seen a case recently where billions that were due by Vodafone (and had been found to due by the court and were upheld to be due by a higher court ... how much clearer in law do you want it?) were nonetheless written off on the say-so of one man, without reference to tax experts within HMRC or to HMRC's own auditors.
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Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:26 pm  
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What on Earth are you waffling on about? It is quite clear that pricing cannot just be an arbitrary mark up on costs, it needs to take account of the market place. That's one of the main reasons why efficient businesses survive and less eficient ones go under.


I'm "waffling" about you recommending that companies pay staff out of profits, which is lunacy of the highest order, even for you. For the 4th time, staff costs should be covered by turnover, not profits. Do you think Tesco don't factor the costs of having people work for them into the price they sell things for?

How does a not-for-profit organisation operate in Dallyworld? Presumably on the goodwill of staff who realise that they'll never be paid.
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