Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator

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[LBC @LBC]

“That’s so damning!”

@ShelaghFogarty and @NatashaC can’t believe what Peter Mandelson and Pat McFadden texted each other…

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@PeterMcCormack Very interesting debate.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Watch the full show here…
https://t.co/KtnShZgBeH

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

The question for anyone proposing equalisation is “Tell me what businesses you have founded and run? How many jobs did you create? How many mouths were you responsible for feeding every month? How close did you come to losing your house?” Salaried folk have no idea of the risks sacrifices entrepreneurs make, which they have never had to.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@johnredwood Cost to hire no-experience worker is far too high, and the recent ERA2025 means firms are not prepared to gamble on new employees.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

All part of the Labour Growth agenda.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The energy price cap will rise by 13% from July

The typical household will pay £1,862 per year - an increase of £221

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

🚆Since I was first elected as an MP in 2010, I warned HS2 was a disaster on all fronts, and yet we have blindly ploughed ahead with it.

🤦Too much hubris to admit our mistakes, and too many refusing to end the project.

🙏HS2 is another predictable government project disaster.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@griffitha @SteveBakerFRSA Shame they never did that when in power.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@DanNeidle Corp tax for small business.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@Sam_Dumitriu Everyone has their threshold of what they consider fair. Many have left based on previous increases. Increasing it more means more will go. It’s the common topic of conversation among business owners.

[Financial Times @FT]

Morrisons blames UK government policy for shutting 100 lossmaking stores https://t.co/By1UjiufED

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Rachel from accounts/customer service needs a better calculator.

A family of 4 travelling from Chester to LEGOLAND in August will cost about £600 once you include the train fare, the shuttle bus, and entry tickets.

That’s before food or paid attractions in the park.

And her big “help for families” is a £5 discount on a LEGOLAND ticket 🤡

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@GayTory @wesstreeting Having people in cabinet who have never built a company as a founder with their own money, have no idea about how to get growth.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If true, the civilizational payoff from this will be stratospheric. Enormous advances coming in all areas of science, biology, chemistry, medicine, materials, energy.

[Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck]

I suspect math will be like Chess and Go due to verifiability. The period of fruitful collaboration between humans and AI will be short (i.e. a few years or less, not a decade). Progress in math will be jagged, with harder to formalize fields coming last, but I suspect this jaggedness will be compressed in time -- I expect superhuman performance at (nearly?) all areas of math within a few years (a few = 2-3?).

AIs will also be better at asking pure math questions than humans, and will quickly develop theories beyond human comprehension.

Human theorists will have a recreational comparative advantage over other humans in understanding these theories, but AIs will be better at communicating these theories to applied researchers. Pure mathematicians will need to become applied researchers to do productive work, until applied research is also automated.

Confidence level for prediction: 50-65% for gist, 40-50% for all above claims being correct.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

Question: If you were Chancellor and wanted theme parks to reduce prices by a giving them a temporary tax decrease: Would you (a) Give them 6 months notice, or (b) Do it a few weeks before summer, after all their leaflets, marketing and posters were already printed and distributed?

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@DanNeidle Maybe it’s as easy as defining “genuine employees” - no-one mention the PGMOL refs case, that was “clear cut” and had “no hallmarks of employment”, but which HMRC litigated for 8 years.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@AlistairHaimes There are very few MPs who understand tax. So, get suitcases ready.

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

Should we make the Sunday Sport chancellor?

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

[Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator @ContractorCalc]

@Steven_Swinford What if people cannot afford to go, and are struggling with the weekly shop. How do discounts on fairground attractions help them?