
Originally Posted by
taxexile
if sid the plumber is self employed and competent with his skills and customer service then he should be earning somewhere between £40 and £80 an hour.
you seem to regard sid as poor, underpaid, downtrodden and a victim of some socialist inspired inequality, just a poor " working class" sap ripe for an avaricious government to render him hungry, helpless and homeless thanks to an unfair taxation system.
these days for self employed tradesmen nothing is further from the truth.