4th May 2012, 09:56 AM
Thing is Wax, Martin the volunteer trustee probably has access to one of probably the only two letters on VAT ever written by the HMRC to an organisation which has the word archaeological associated with it. I imagine that the HMRC just added up all the invoices from excavation and slapped VAT on it and left it up to the unit to fight its case. Unfortunatly this unit which is basically run by volunteers like Martin and whos experience of the business world is prodominatly not in business but acadiemia and local government and basic grant farming and who probably tend to view the solution to all woes like this
which they probably extend to their excavation services. On these grounds they then think that tax should be paid on just about everything including public access to archaeology. How that system works is that instead of the archaeologist finding the competative price for all things archaeologically necessary if you add up all the taxes including personell, insurance, VAT-we are doing this to pay a central government to then return these taxes to run a HER and units such as Gwent.
As far as I see it these volueenters are going to be going through the very thing that we produce for the client-grey literature and they are in their amauteur way going to extract knowledge from it. This knowledge is what we produced in the field. I though that taxes on knowledge where abolished a long time ago. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRknowledge.htm
Quote:On the broader issue of funding for HERs, to me the simplest solution would be for them to become a statutory duty paid for by taxes. There are reasons why this hasn't happened, political or Political, and instead there is a patchwork of funding streams that delivers some sort of service - and that funding comes with a set of priorities that would not necessarily be ours if we were given a free hand. That's not a complaint, just an observation.
which they probably extend to their excavation services. On these grounds they then think that tax should be paid on just about everything including public access to archaeology. How that system works is that instead of the archaeologist finding the competative price for all things archaeologically necessary if you add up all the taxes including personell, insurance, VAT-we are doing this to pay a central government to then return these taxes to run a HER and units such as Gwent.
As far as I see it these volueenters are going to be going through the very thing that we produce for the client-grey literature and they are in their amauteur way going to extract knowledge from it. This knowledge is what we produced in the field. I though that taxes on knowledge where abolished a long time ago. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRknowledge.htm
Reason: your past is my past