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Does it look like this?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPmdP6nX...g&name=360x360

[edison]

The fact you have to ask this means you don't have a clue about IR35. Very poor position to be in bearing in mind we just missed it in April but its coming again next year. Get reading.

How is it different to receiving a small nominal value gift like a calendar or mug?

[ladymuck]

How is it different to receiving a small nominal value gift like a calendar or mug?

Ex-ClientCo put corporate desk calendars on every desk one year, irrespective of who sat there and whether the desk was even in use. Does that make me inside IR35?

[edison]

How is it different to receiving a small nominal value gift like a calendar or mug?

Ex-ClientCo put corporate desk calendars on every desk one year, irrespective of who sat there and whether the desk was even in use. Does that make me inside IR35?

IMHO no, but maybe it could be interpreted as being part and parcel?? OP is talking about a gift from his agency though.

[ladymuck]

IMHO no, but maybe it could be interpreted as being part and parcel?? OP is talking about a gift from his agency though.

If the client requires it, maybe. But this is the agency.

Yes I know.

I will have to remember to find the sarcasm tag next time.

[darmstadt]

I have corporate logo'ed polo shirts for use when at conferences or onsite at a customer, I try my hardest not to wear them

[GigiBronz]

maybe if people would start refusing meaningless useless gifts, the companies/agencies will stop treating them like chumps.

it's not the gift on it's own but the indebtedness that you acquire and need to reciprocate.

google rule of reciprocity in social norms. -> marketing trick they are using on all of us to make us to do irrational things

[BR14]

maybe if people would start refusing meaningless useless gifts, the companies/agencies will stop treating them like chumps.

it's not the gift on it's own but the indebtedness that you acquire and need to reciprocate.

google rule of reciprocity in social norms. -> marketing trick they are using on all of us to make us to do irrational things

Cobblers.

[BR14]

I have corporate logo'ed polo shirts for use when at conferences or onsite at a customer, I try my hardest not to wear them

Expat twats 'R' us GmbH ????

[darmstadt]

Expat twats 'R' us GmbH ????

Looks like someone has only just out of the wrong side of the bed and found that he was actually sweating all night long but has in fact pee'd it after a night on the Buckfast...