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"hi just saw on the news that the rip of british goverment is thinking of taxing the oil companies for taking people to the oil rigs ffs is it not time that people and companies stood up to this rip off goverment makes us boil this does" what? where is the logic in that? | |||
"hi just saw on the news that the rip of british goverment is thinking of taxing the oil companies for taking people to the oil rigs ffs is it not time that people and companies stood up to this rip off goverment makes us boil this does what? where is the logic in that?" Few people are paid or subsidised to travel to/ from work. It's the "portal to portal" argument. | |||
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"are MPs included in the unpaid for travelling to work then?" MPs are thought of as having two places of work. Westminster and their constituence and, in the same way as any employed person would expect their employer to pay for travel between Head Office and a branch office (for want of better terminology) so MPs expect the same. | |||
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"Okies.... just though I'd best explain sumit here..... rig workers are classed as being at their work place from the moment they check-in at the heli-port,,,, not from when the helicopter arrive on the rig... even though some companies,,, only commence paying workers from this point...self employed or not! " Then they should be able to claim the costs of travelling to and from the rig against their taxes. | |||
" Then they should be able to claim the costs of travelling to and from the rig against their taxes." yes but that, depends on if the worker is on salery with inclusive travel expences... or self employed .... | |||
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"Okies.... just though I'd best explain sumit here..... rig workers are classed as being at their work place from the moment they check-in at the heli-port,,,, not from when the helicopter arrive on the rig... even though some companies,,, only commence paying workers from this point...self employed or not!" So the start portal is at Dyce 
Who pays the airfare out to the rig? The passenger or the company they work for? | |||
"Okies.... just though I'd best explain sumit here..... rig workers are classed as being at their work place from the moment they check-in at the heli-port,,,, not from when the helicopter arrive on the rig... even though some companies,,, only commence paying workers from this point...self employed or not! So the start portal is at Dyce
Who pays the airfare out to the rig? The passenger or the company they work for?"In the case of mobile offshore installations the helicopter costs are met by the client company hiring the insalation from a its owner, if not owned and operated by the same company….. In the case of offshore production facilities or fixed platforms the helicopter costs are met by the oil company who is responsible for running that instalations operation which may or may not involve fully or part ownership of it…. Individual rig workers do not contribute towards the cost of routine crew-change helicopters | |||
"............... Individual rig workers do not contribute towards the cost of routine crew-change helicopters " In that case it'll just become an additional (and in the scale of things, modest) operating cost and shouldn't affect the individual employee. | |||
"............... Individual rig workers do not contribute towards the cost of routine crew-change helicopters In that case it'll just become an additional (and in the scale of things, modest) operating cost and shouldn't affect the individual employee." yep,,,,, and hardly a drop in the ocean against oil company profits,,, if you ,pardon the pun.... Oh... and while I'm on.... I believe someone mentioned earlier about perol costs and made reference to Scottish location and refineries etc,,, etc....... erm.... well ,,,,, infact,,, most of the oil we use for petrol production comes from over-seas....As Brent crude is just way too high in value to be used wholey for refining into petrol... Its far more cost effective to use lower grades of oil imported from abroad so we can and maximise the revenues attained from the many products north sea crude can be used for that lower grades can't…although we do make some petrol from it too,,,, but more as a bye product... Here end-eth the lesson | |||
