Do you really know why you pay council tax? What do you think your council tax money is really spent on? What if you can avoid paying it altogether? Do you know the power that is lawfully available to you? Would you like to learn how to wield it? If your curiosity has been sparked, then read through this book in order to answer the above questions. Let the Council Tax Painkiller guide you! THROUGH THE FIRE AND ALL THE WAY! Learn how to free yourself. Learn what the councils really do not want you to know. Learn how you can turn the tables on them. Learn how to win!
We've always been told "winners never quit," but TV personality and motivational speaker Josh Shipp knows it isn't true. Smart people quit the right things at the right time. But how do you know if you're in the wrong career? What is the right thing for you? And when's the best time to jump ship? Jump Ship is a step-by-step guide through one of life's most difficult—and most important—transitions. Leaving behind an unsatisfying job and embarking upon a new career can open up a world of fulfillment, but it isn't easy. As a role model and mentor to tens of thousands of young professionals, Shipp has seen the impact that a new career can have on a person's life. In Jump Ship, he offers you the time-tested tools to get there. This book will help you discover your truest priorities and provide you the resources you need to succeed, drawing inspiration from the countless people whose lives he has improved. Filled with powerful stories and practical guidance, this is a book designed to help you face down your fears—and take the plunge.
This book is essential reading for property professionals and laymen alike. Anyone who would like to know more about the houses of England’s cities, towns and villages will benefit from reading this book. Through a wealth of pictures, easy to read comments and architectural notes the book helps the reader to identify the different architectural periods and understand the development of the construction of English houses. The book illustrates a number of influential styles and features of English houses throughout history. Also included are examples of houses that have been altered by several generations and different periods enabling the reader to trace trends and discover the more subtle nuances of English houses.
Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. Nor is he the outcome of a traditional business school education or a corporate executive turned entrepreneur. Rather, he is a hard-working, self-taught 26-year-old hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real” job. In Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke, Gerber challenges the social conventions behind the "real" job and empowers young people to take control of their lives and dump their nine-to-fives—or their quest to attain them. Drawing upon case studies, experiences, and observations, Scott dissects failures, shares hard-learned lessons, and presents practical, affordable, and systematic action steps to building, managing, and marketing a successful business on a shoestring budget. The proven, no-b.s. methodology presented in Never Get a "Real" Job teaches unemployed and underemployed Gen-Yers, aspiring small business owners, students, and recent college graduates how to quit 9-to-5s, become their own bosses, and achieve financial independence.
Dave Bartok is not having the best of years. His mother has just died, he is an addicted poker player, and (hugely in debt), his real estate business is sinking, and he doesn't really like his longtime girlfriend. When he gets saddled with an abandoned dog, he doesn't think things can get worse. And then Reg the dog starts talking --and only Dave can hear him. At first Dave thinks he's gone crazy, but he soon realizes he's found his soul mate. Dave and Reg start off on a madcap adventure that will find them tangled up with the mob, involved in an illegal real estate deal, cleaning up at the poker table, and stumbling toward true love. The wisdom of Reg the dog: On couches being chewable because they are actually sausages "It's got a skin, it's got stuffing, what am I not getting here?" On entering a dangerous establishment "Actually, I've changed my mind. There's no atmosphere so menacing it can't be banished by a ham sandwich." On Dave's awful girlfriend "She wants so to be pack leader. She acts as if she's in control when you're there, you defer to her all the time. Would it not be better if she were allowed to go and form her own pack?" On neckties "Every time you put it on you end up going somewhere you don't want to. That's what I call a leash."
BOOK REVIEW An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor MA of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, Reviews Editor, "The Barrister", and Mediator. Paul Patterson has undeniable courage in producing his personal critical survey on what he calls "a costs scam" involving council tax recovery processes. He is an angry man! And his anger is about the concept of the award of costs which are at the discretion of the court. There are always at least two sides if not more to a story, and costs are often as emotional as the judgment itself. Sadly, the way in which council tax payments are obtained from the local electorate has remained an area of concern for many since 1275 with the initial poll tax conflict, reignited with the modern council tax. In his earlier book, an historic forerunner entitled, "My Council Tax Stance" from October 2017, Paul wrote: "This all started in January 2016 when my son Jay started to tell me how the council where investing in arms companies, if that wasn't immoral enough, it came apparent that the council are deceiving people who have fallen into arrears with their council tax. They are deceiving them in the summons they are sending out to them." He continues, declaring that a summons is "nothing more than an invitation to the council's place of business, a room in the magistrates' court, nothing to do with the magistrates, just a way of putting fear into you. Hundreds of people all summons to appear at Bodmin Magistrates Court on a Friday afternoon at 1.20pm." With his new paperback, Paul has expanded his points to cover the pandemic and after. Paul then sets the scene, stating that "a council officer will be waiting to usher you into their place of business, get you into agreeing to paying by instalment and that way accepting liability without even seeing a magistrate. In his original book, he offers advice that many of the letters he cites can be used as templates for your own council tax stance". And Paul is back on the attack in 2020 with "The Great Council Tax Recovery Scam". He updates his original work setting out how a Defendant might challenge costs in a practical way. There is an analogy here to the non-payment of the licence fee where those opposed to such fees were encouraged "on mass" to make a challenge and clog up the court system. With the sheer numbers of Defendants in both licence fee and council tax cases being so high. The court (and the Johnson government since 2019) have remained concerned at the numbers and chaos which can ensue. Bulk listing liability orders have been a matter of concern with the council tax and many other civil proceedings where the allegation is that the Claimant receives preferential treatment with their causes of action, and the inflated costs sought against mainly vulnerable people. There is only one conclusion: urgent reform. There is also a bigger issue about the extent of the powers of local government officials who are often considered to "over-egg" the costs they seek by doubling up the sums of money for work done. Sadly, it remains the position that costs so often out-strip any sums of money sought or issues in dispute resolved which makes a mockery of "open justice" which remains the preserve of the rich (except the council tax payer). It is clear this book will be highly unpopular with many officials, and it does not aim to replace professional legal advice which should be sought. It is feared that the only real solution is a root and branch reform which will occur with the post-Covid developing chaos to the justice system once tax arrears and costs claims return to the courts. You are very brave to take these people on, Paul.
