I agree with NLUK.
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Past agency requesting NI number and DOB for HMRC records
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Originally posted by Bluenose View PostI agree with NLUK.Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostTo roll over and do whatever an agent tells you?'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostWell said, northerndoormatuk.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostTo roll over and do whatever an agent tells you?
There are lots of ir35 audits going on at the moment be wise as to the current mood and to the information you provide as well as don't provide.Comment
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I had an agency tell me I shouldn't worry about the client timesheets, only use theirs. A month after the (first) contract expired the agent called me rather worried - erm... we need the client timesheets, or we won't get paid.
"Oh that's a shame. You've paid me already."
Kept him squirming for a bit, then relented. "I got an extension, I'm still working there, and the timesheets I've kept in the drawer of my desk at client site - I'll send them to you on Monday".
Why? In the interests of keeping good business relationships, not causing unnecessary aggro even to an agent, and because I'm better than they are.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostWell said, northerndoormatuk.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostYou aren't stitching yourself up. It's information the agents are legally obliged to collect to fulfill their obligations to the reporting requirements legislation.
The issue here they've royally screwed up and not collected it at the right time so not your problem. You can either supply it and hear nothing further or refuse and see where it goes. I don't know what the rules are about you having to provide this so late after, I expect none so you under no obligation whatsoever to supply. I guess the agent will try give you some earache though.
I'd guess this is up to you. I'd probably ignore it for now but if it starts to get a pain in the ass I'd consider giving them it just to get rid of them and get on.Originally posted by northernladuk View PostCome on billy. Stop being a trolling pillock. That's not what my thread said at all. Generally you have some modicum of a point but saying that when I clearly gave options in the mail makes you look a little daft.
This is a situation where, months after the fact, an agency who royally screwed up at the time come chasing you for your information in order to dig themselves out of the sh*t.
My number one consideration in anything in business: Put the shoe on the other foot and consider what would happen. If you had "forgotten" to get your signed timesheet and deliver your last invoice to an agency on a contract you finished 2 years ago, do you think the agency would do anything other than laugh their asses off when you finally remember and phone them up to collect that money all this time later?
Only when agents start acting as caring business professionals and not the bottom-feeding shysters that they are can they expect such co-operation from the contractors that they deal with.
So, I have far more than a "modicum" of a point. I have the whole point, and in this specific case, playing ball with the agent and giving them the information they request shouldn't even be an option on the table for consideration (unless you can bill them for it, of course!)Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostIf you'd left your original post at just the first two paragraphs, it would have been perfect, but that last paragraph and the "I'd consider giving them it just to get rid of them" remark is exactly the wrong sort of attitude to have, hence my remark about rolling over simply because an agent says so.
This is a situation where, months after the fact, an agency who royally screwed up at the time come chasing you for your information in order to dig themselves out of the sh*t.
My number one consideration in anything in business: Put the shoe on the other foot and consider what would happen. If you had "forgotten" to get your signed timesheet and deliver your last invoice to an agency on a contract you finished 2 years ago, do you think the agency would do anything other than laugh their asses off when you finally remember and phone them up to collect that money all this time later?
Only when agents start acting as caring business professionals and not the bottom-feeding shysters that they are can they expect such co-operation from the contractors that they deal with.
So, I have far more than a "modicum" of a point. I have the whole point, and in this specific case, playing ball with the agent and giving them the information they request shouldn't even be an option on the table for consideration (unless you can bill them for it, of course!)'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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If it takes more effort to complain on here than to provide simple information, then head to mumsnet/DailyFail.
I like the idea of offering the information for a fee, but otherwise the "don't tell them your name, Pike" attitude isn't very professional, but is very snowflake.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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