The Perfect Taxi App

[U Wha]

The app, regardless of it's legal structure or ownership would have to produce financial statements every year, which include a profit and loss account and a balance sheet. These Statements do not detail individual clients or customers. The financial statements are submitted with Annual Returns to Companies House, Revenue Commissioners, Bankers/lenders, Investors and shareholders. If further details are required by revenue an audit may be conducted which usually takes a snapshot or random extracts unless there is a serious investigation relating to the business and not the clients/customers.

There are data protection laws in place to protect how your details are managed and who has access to that information.

When a driver signs up they can be assigned a number, separate to the necessary vetting procedures drivers go through prior to joining. Figures and stats can be calculated/broken down by reference to a number and not
 the drivers personal details. The information would still be there but not readily accessible. if the authorities really want it they will get it and as mentioned by other posters there are easier ways to get it, meters etc.

[mercenary for hire]

Back to John's question about the meter ticket number,it means nothing as there could be more than one driver on a taxi.Only one person can log into a driver app at a time.I could if it was an issue put a different meter in the car every two years to avoid any unwanted risk.Wiping the slate clean if it suited my circumstances.Our current batch of apps keep everything for years and years.

[Rat Catcher]

The erm got the erm end of the stick with receipt numbers, no doubt about that. However, regardless of how often one changes one's meter one still has the shift reports it produces, similar to a shopkeepers till reports.

[mercenary for hire]

I'd probably just bribe the installer to wipe it if the revenue come looking for me.I dunno who at Mytaxi are taking bribes so that wouldn't be so easy.

[Rat Catcher]

But what happened to the shift reports? The same thing could happen to your mytaxi invoices, I guess? Revenue can legally require you to obtain a list of accounts you hold with up to five banks within the State, beyond that they don't routinely access records from 3rd parties. If your records are lost or accidentally destroyed they would review the techniques employed by your accountant in dealing with incomplete records and apply penalties as deemed appropriate.

[mercenary for hire]

I don't know anything about shift reports...but if the battery gets pulled I'm guessing they dissapear.Theres no hard drive in a taxi meter,is there?The apps keep stuff in the cloud where there's no battery for me to pull.

I'm the accountant(bad one at that) so I'll   just have to see what happens.I'll just show them my old NCT certs with the low mileage.I have them still.But mileage could be altered too with a phone call so who knows what weight they carry.The only certainty is the app work and connected bank accounts from revenue's perspective.

This is why drivers get bored with the apps towards the end of the week.

[Rat Catcher]

The shift reports are printed by your meter every time you end a shift, they're probably on a spike behind one of your exercise machines under a heap of clothes, most likely the spike beside the fuel receipt spike. Your mytaxi invoices are attached to emails so you probably save them in a folder on your PC/Macintosh called "mytaxi", with back up copies on USB sticks and various cloud drives to be sure to be sure.

However, if you're the sort of bloke that discards all receipts and purges his emails without saving anything you could be open to penalties in the event of audit. I believe there are several techniques for erasing the meter's memory and mytaxi's system only allows drivers access records for the previous six months. Obviously, Revenue will develop ratios to extrapolate meaningful data from payments received from mytaxi e.g. they might conclude that, in the absence of records showing the contrary, mytaxi accounts for 22% of your takings and 74% of mytaxi work is cash...

[mercenary for hire]

These shift reports aren't easy on my meter.You need to press a load of buttons and say a prayer or something.Do yis all print them out?

[Belker]

Opps indeed !   

[Shallowhal]

These shift reports aren't easy on my meter.You need to press a load of buttons and say a prayer or something.Do yis all print them out?

After disposing of all the wasted paper that i'm paying for..ie receipts from almost every night that people don't want,i certainly won't be wasting anymore paper printing that shite out!!

[Rat Catcher]

I can't believe you're paying for till rolls, Hal. Pop into the depot and pick some up. I got a lifetime supply when I went in, as well as a notebook, biro and cards for my cabby code!

[Shallowhal]

Very good RC....the least amount of interaction with the depot the better....i'd rather pay the €30 for a box of 50 till rolls tbh!!

[mercenary for hire]

Yeah but the folks in the base thought it was a bribe..

[Rat Catcher]

50 rolls... FFS, that'd last 12.5 lifetimes for me.

[Rat Catcher]

Yeah but the folks in the base thought it was a bribe..

Not at all, they're available FOC to any driver and you can grab a cup of coffee... nice coffee at that, not your Boylesports crap!

Of course, the till rolls do have the mytaxi logo on the back.