mandelbrot
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Owning a small business for 3oyrs+ my wife and I would go into paroxysms of anxiety if we were tardy in submitting accounts, if we thought we'd erred in any Corp tax, PAYE, Vat,breached any Health and Safety rule, Travel Trade rules and regulations and a myriad other public laws.
We lost money in the last couple of years -traded badly and eventually closed the business with not a penny more than we put into it.
Our average earnings over 30 years were, each of us, little more than the average industrial income- half that amount in the last year.
When we closed the business we made sure that employees, creditors, Revenue/VAT were fully paid inc. redundancy.
Did we behave like this because we're idiots, cowards or because we're not Irish?
I'd say: Not the first one, maybe a tiny bit of the second one, and a largely the third one! But really, ye were obviously just well brought up, so I say blame the parents...!