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By *entscotscpl OP   Couple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yes and petrol is dearer the further you are from London, why is that when it comes from Scotland and also gets refined in Scotland, with the most northern places paying most? Sadly things like driving and tertiary education are pursuits for the rich these days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hadn't know this till the OP. It seems it's a plot to extend air passenger duty to helicopter flights out to the rigs and back.

"Oil & Gas UK has estimated that the proposals would mean an additional cost of around £165 million per year for the industry."

No doubt there'll be proposals to pass this onto petrol users.

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By *entscotscpl OP   Couple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

yes if petrol etc goes up the food clothes and stuff will go up again

welcum to rip of britain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After what George Osborne did to the oil exploration industry it's no more than (and I don't mean this flippantly) a drop in the ocean.

I suspect he'd argue that people living on one side of a ferry trip (Dunoon to Gourock) and working on the other or living on one side of a toll bridge (Bristolish to Cardiffish) and working on the other - have to pay that cost and a helicopter ride to work is no different.

I'd disagree but then I'd make a point of disagreeing with Osborne no matter what he said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

are MPs included in the unpaid for travelling to work then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

why are you suprised at what your government do to you ???

they are not here to serve you but their business paymasters.

we are just pawns, so you either accept it or stand up and make your voice heard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What's all the hullabuloo about?

As most oil rig workers are self-employed and can claim travel costs against their tax it's the govt that are ultimately paying for their travel to and from work.

There's no such thing as a free ride.

Keep up the good work Georgie-boy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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!

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over a year ago


"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!

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Then they should be able to claim the costs of travelling to and from the rig against their taxes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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over a year ago


"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?

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over a year ago


"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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...............

Individual rig workers do not contribute towards the cost of routine crew-change helicopters

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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.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...............

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

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