overseas

[Turion]

previous agency is your ex-wife?

Or how do you end up in a situation of paying life long fees to an agency?

It's Gordo's outfit, the HMRC. Difficult to avoid that firm. UK's their manor you see and they have the right to demand what they see as fit and we have to comply. It's the way of the world

The wife and kids are a price worth paying and hope to avoid the very wasteful broken family syndrome (BFS)

[ace00]

What has this to do with Business / Contracts?

[expat]

If you think you're hard done by, then take this.

I have to pay a large % of my contract income to the same agency for the rest of my life, until death in fact, as long as I remain in the UK.

Wrong! The government is not an agency, it is the delegated actions of the community. You are part of the community, so you are part of this. If you don't want to be part of the community, eff off out of it.

OK, I answered as if you were ignorant, though I know that you are just perverse.

[NotAllThere]

Nearly all government departments have been renamed "agency". HMRC should be renamed also:

TA = Taxation Agency.
Mind you, the DMWM Agency has a nice ring to it:


"Demanding Money With Menaces Agency"

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

Mr brother-in-law is contracting in Dubai. Earns £600 per day tax free and has a 3-bed apartment on the Palm and a fully expensed Toyota Landruiser thrown in. He says its great fun.

[RichardCranium]

Mr brother-in-law is contracting in Dubai. Earns £600 per day tax free and has a 3-bed apartment on the Palm and a fully expensed Toyota Landruiser thrown in. He says its great fun.

But he eats, lives and sleeps with cockroaches.

UAE? Luvverly. If you like cockroaches. And sand. And mint-flavoured tea with 18 sugars. And mentalist taxi drivers.

[ThomasSoerensen]

But he eats, lives and sleeps with cockroaches.

UAE? Luvverly. If you like cockroaches. And sand. And mint-flavoured tea with 18 sugars. And mentalist taxi drivers.

with a Land Cruiser I doubt he is very worried about taxi drivers.

[Mike Hunt]

at least its warm, and theres not a river trying to get through his front door

as Ray Winstone says in Sexy Beast

"Heat, yeah, Spain lovely,

England, nah, every **** with a long face"

[RichardCranium]

with a Land Cruiser I doubt he is very worried about taxi drivers.

Then you've never seen the mentalist UAE taxi drivers.

Even Italians daren't drive in the UAE.

(Bimbling along one of the strips of tarmac they call roads, it is strange being overtaken by petrol tankers and laden buses that are driving on the desert alongside you. Outside them is the taxis going hell for leather.)

[Sockpuppet]

Prague taxi drivers are like that.

One taxi driver was a right nutty twat. He was doing 60 on a frikking cobbled street in the rain. I did not feel safe.