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Originally Posted by jaysay
Irrespective accyman councillors have always been able to claim travelling exes from the council, they are not not classed as self employed as tax is take at source or it was
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I've no problem with expenses per se. Any decent public or private enterprise will pay those. However, no business entity pays for it's employees to turn up for work.
Nor have I a problem with councillor's (taxable) allowances for attending meetings and the like or with spending time dealing with constituents problems, if those councillors are working during the day and using up what would otherwise be their free time on council business.
The problem is when someone takes a full time position for the job, gets (relative to local incomes) handsomely rewarded and then claims extra tax free dosh for their attendance.