Does anyone else bother with Real Arragements Letters?

[singhr]

I am just coming to the end of a contract and getting my house in order before moving on. I produced a Real Arrangements Letter and had to use all my charm and negotiating skills to overcome the usual resistance and get the end client to sign it. So now I have it filed away with all the others I've collected over the years since PCG started advocating them.

As I hadn't seen them mentioned much on this forum recently I was wondering if other CUKers go through this pain with its attendant suspicion that 'he must be up to something' or don't bother?

[Wanderer]

I produced a Real Arrangements Letter and had to use all my charm and negotiating skills to overcome the usual resistance and get the end client to sign it.

Do you work for the client or through an agency?

[Sockpuppet]

I am just coming to the end of a contract and getting my house in order before moving on. I produced a Real Arrangements Letter and had to use all my charm and negotiating skills to overcome the usual resistance and get the end client to sign it. So now I have it filed away with all the others I've collected over the years since PCG started advocating them.

As I hadn't seen them mentioned much on this forum recently I was wondering if other CUKers go through this pain with its attendant suspicion that 'he must be up to something' or don't bother?

I don't bother. Most contracts I get are for specific purposes so a team is formed then disbanded when the project is done. No-one is availible at client co longer than ~12 months after I leave that works with me its just the way logistics works with the turnover.

[Fred Bloggs]

I have never bothered. Looking back, I don't think there is a single person still working at an ex-client co that I had worked there with. How could HMRC determine what I did when I was there if there is no body there to answer?

[darmstadt]

I have never heard of them, could someone kindly explain what it is?