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Loz said:
I doubt that the calories you consumed and the calories you were told you consumed are the same. Plus how much of what you consumed resulted in water retention?

The mass of the food you eat won't necessarily tell you how much weight you'll gain. Or lose. The interaction of the food you consume with your body is more relevant to how much you gain or lose.

If the food you eat causes your body to build body fat, or retain water, or build muscle, you'll gain weight. If you eat food that results in less of these interactions, you'll lose weight.

Calories or rather, food with a high calorific content that your body can metabolise, sugars like glucose thatvattract water molecules within the body, and high protein food combined with exercise, all contribute to weight gain.

Since I went low carbs, and thus low calorie, and lost a lot of weight, I've found myself much more thirsty. Drinking a couple litres of water a day in addition to tea & coffee, is essential for me.
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Again, no one has ever consumed a single calorie, ever.

No one will ever choke because some calories went down the wrong way.

No one ever knocked over a cup of calories.

A calorie cannot affect you, in the same way that a cm can’t. You could sit on a 1cm tack and that would affect you, but it wasn’t the ‘cm’ that hurt you.

Centimetres, litres, kilograms etc are all perfect measures. Whereas a calorie as a means of measuring energy converted from food is totally unreliable as it is not constant.
 
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Loz said:
I'm finally starting to understand. Thanks guys.

Calories have no effect on weight gain.

It's wizards. Wizards are doing it.

THOSE BASTARDS!!
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Synchronicity is a wonderful thing!

This vid was posted an hour ago….I’ve not watched it all, and the Prof is a bit giddy talking to the pritty laydee…but worth a few minutes watch starting about 12 minutes

 
TIL
HMRC can reduce your PAYE code in order to collect perceived underpayments of tax for the current year in-year. This means a sudden reduction of household income based on a year's worth of liability, which is spread over less than a full tax year. In my case, four months. In other words, as soon as they think there is an underpayment, they start collecting it straightaway.
On the other hand, HMRC has no easy mechanism for telling them a deduction in your tax code that is based upon last year's figures is excessive. In other words, HMRC will tax you on income you aren't receiving and their response to this is, we will sort this out after the end of the tax year. (NB, after the tax year means seven months after the tax year).

So money you owe HMRC is grabbed as soon as they can, money HMRC owes to you is repaid up to nineteen months after you pay it, with no interest payable to you (despite it being a loan you are forced to make to the Gubmint).

What a time to be alive.
 
Loz said:
TIL
HMRC can reduce your PAYE code in order to collect perceived underpayments of tax for the current year in-year. This means a sudden reduction of household income based on a year's worth of liability, which is spread over less than a full tax year. In my case, four months. In other words, as soon as they think there is an underpayment, they start collecting it straightaway.
On the other hand, HMRC has no easy mechanism for telling them a deduction in your tax code that is based upon last year's figures is excessive. In other words, HMRC will tax you on income you aren't receiving and their response to this is, we will sort this out after the end of the tax year. (NB, after the tax year means seven months after the tax year).

So money you owe HMRC is grabbed as soon as they can, money HMRC owes to you is repaid up to nineteen months after you pay it, with no interest payable to you (despite it being a loan you are forced to make to the Gubmint).

What a time to be alive.
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Have you rung them Loz? A pita I know but usually they will sort this in a phone call.
 
NoGutsNoGlory said:
Have you rung them Loz? A pita I know but usually they will sort this in a phone call.
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PITA? A pineapple in the ass? Agreed. A sodding great pineapple.

The response is, oh, that will be resolved at the end of the tax year when the actual figure becomes available.

So, HMRC is resolved to ensure that any tax you owe is collected by the end of the tax year the liability arises, while any refund they owe you wont be resolved until seven months after the end of the tax year in which the overpayment started accruing.

In my case, the underpayment they are trying to collect stems from an over-estimate of this year's income based upon last year's figure - and because they didn't start using last year's figure until fucking December, I get hammered for tax I don't owe for four months.

My fault for having income in addition to my pitiful work pensions, I guess. Net-contributor issues. Pfft.
 
Loz said:
PITA? A pineapple in the ass? Agreed. A sodding great pineapple.

The response is, oh, that will be resolved at the end of the tax year when the actual figure becomes available.

So, HMRC is resolved to ensure that any tax you owe is collected by the end of the tax year the liability arises, while any refund they owe you wont be resolved until seven months after the end of the tax year in which the overpayment started accruing.

In my case, the underpayment they are trying to collect stems from an over-estimate of this year's income based upon last year's figure - and because they didn't start using last year's figure until fucking December, I get hammered for tax I don't owe for four months.

My fault for having income in addition to my pitiful work pensions, I guess. Net-contributor issues. Pfft.
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I’ve got to do a tax return, as I always have, but my only income now is pension taxed at source.
I’m going to request not to have to do a tax return in future. Let’s see how that pans out!
 
NoGutsNoGlory said:
I’ve got to do a tax return, as I always have, but my only income now is pension taxed at source.
I’m going to request not to have to do a tax return in future. Let’s see how that pans out!
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You can request that. I did and was successful but then, I had, at the time, the ear of a complaints officer dealing with the clusterfuck HMRC had made of my tax affairs a few years ago.

I tell you, if I hadn't been clued in on how tax worked in my particular circumstances, I would have been even more thoroughly robbed than is normal. Or robbed by an accountant had I hired one, who would have taken a fuck-off great chunk of my refund.

Nothing is worth living under a "government" like this. Noth-thing.
 
What we need is a DOGE to help stop the ridiculous wasting of our money - it should be really simple to set up; a website listing all non-essential spending, and a voting system where we can vote yay or nay, using our National Insurance numbers and PAYE reference - so only tax payers can vote where the money goes, or rather doesn't go.
 
Dox said:
What we need is a DOGE to help stop the ridiculous wasting of our money - it should be really simple to set up; a website listing all non-essential spending, and a voting system where we can vote yay or nay, using our National Insurance numbers and PAYE reference - so only tax payers can vote where the money goes, or rather doesn't go.
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Go dodgy dox 👍
 
Loz said:
TIL
HMRC can reduce your PAYE code in order to collect perceived underpayments of tax for the current year in-year. This means a sudden reduction of household income based on a year's worth of liability, which is spread over less than a full tax year. In my case, four months. In other words, as soon as they think there is an underpayment, they start collecting it straightaway.
On the other hand, HMRC has no easy mechanism for telling them a deduction in your tax code that is based upon last year's figures is excessive. In other words, HMRC will tax you on income you aren't receiving and their response to this is, we will sort this out after the end of the tax year. (NB, after the tax year means seven months after the tax year).

So money you owe HMRC is grabbed as soon as they can, money HMRC owes to you is repaid up to nineteen months after you pay it, with no interest payable to you (despite it being a loan you are forced to make to the Gubmint).

What a time to be alive.
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It's the same for the self employed. If you have a good year then the following year will be taxed forward using last years figures. This is particularly burdensome in farming as no two years are the same.
 
Hugo Magnus said:
It's the same for the self employed. If you have a good year then the following year will be taxed forward using last years figures. This is particularly burdensome in farming as no two years are the same.
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When I was interested in this stuff, the assessment of your second year of trading was based upon the assessment of your first (full) year of trading. CY3 was based upon PY (CY2), CY4 on CY3, etc. Things got messy on your FY (final year assessment) where IIRC, you could make some sort of election.

Are you saying it's still like this?
 
Sometime ago I mentioned my driving licence renewal. The paperwork said 7 years, the website said 10 years and customer services said ten years. However, the licence arrived today and it goes like this.

Your driving licence renewal is every 10 years till you get into your 60's. In my case it needed renewal when I was 62 earlier this month. However, this renewal only lasts 8 years. The reason being is that 70 is the defining age, as from 70, you have to apply for a new licence every three years.
 
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