Could barter end the credit crunch?...

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:42 am

The thought occurred to me today after Mr O over-hauled our elderly neighbours car and was paid in fresh fruit and veg from his garden and I cut an elderly ladies finger and toe-nails and was rewarded with home made cherry pie.

Could we live like this? Sounds good to me !!!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:49 am

oscar;1239535 wrote: The thought occurred to me today after Mr O over-hauled our elderly neighbours car and was paid in fresh fruit and veg from his garden and I cut an elderly ladies finger and toe-nails and was rewarded with home made cherry pie.

Could we live like this? Sounds good to me !!!

LETS

Trouble is the government want to tax you on their estimate of the monetary equivalent value of the work / goods bartered.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:37 pm

Bryn Mawr;1239554 wrote: LETS

Trouble is the government want to tax you on their estimate of the monetary equivalent value of the work / goods bartered.
How could they go about proving it? Surely, they are 'gifts' to another?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:41 pm

oscar;1239571 wrote: How could they go about proving it? Surely, they are 'gifts' to another?

Assessed on the going market rate for a skilled worker doing the job or the goods if sold in a shop.

Stupid - but that's government for you.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:19 pm

I have also used this system, win, win situation. :-6

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:51 pm

buttercup;1239656 wrote: I have also used this system, win, win situation. :-6 It would certainly recover some of the community spirit this country seems to have lost.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:53 pm

oscar;1239725 wrote: It would certainly recover some of the community spirit this country seems to have lost.

To me it's an ideal system - when people co-operate with and are indebted to each other they get to know and understand each other. Never a bad thing IMHO.

luciferjohn · Post by **luciferjohn** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:17 pm

oscar;1239535 wrote: The thought occurred to me today after Mr O over-hauled our elderly neighbours car and was paid in fresh fruit and veg from his garden and I cut an elderly ladies finger and toe-nails and was rewarded with home made cherry pie.

Could we live like this? Sounds good to me !!!

sounds great to me, but i dont think the controlling powers would allow it, they couldnt tax it , so they would lose control.

just my 2 cents worth:D ill take a bushel of apples:yh_rotfl