Hate it, hate it, hate it!!!!

[d000hg]

Face it, a lifetime of contracting and you risk becoming Simon:

So many people here remind me of him...

[MarillionFan]

Interesting how when we talk about tax, contractors say they don't earn much more than permies once bench time is factored in, and shouldn't pay equal tax to employed people, but when not trying to defend themselves they earn far more than the same permies.

Point 1 : Interesting how when we talk about tax, contractors say they don't earn much more than permies once bench time is factored in

The first rule of being a contractor is you don't talk about tax

Point 2 : and shouldn't pay equal tax to employed people,

The second rule of being a contractor is you pay the same tax

Point 3 : but when not trying to defend themselves they earn far more than the same permies.

The third rule of being a contractor is you have to rub permies noses in it when talking about tax.

HTH

MF

[the_rangdo]

Did you have a BILA before you left? How about a F2F?

Annual bonus paid out not only based on what you've actually done for the past year, but also on what they think you might achieve in the coming year (i.e. does your boss like you).

Or "we totally support training and development, we want to give you the chance to expand and progress, and not necessarily in this team. We don't want to hold you back."

followed by "you want to do WHAT, how does that relate to your current day-2-day duties. You should do this nice Finance Fundamentals course instead"