Originally posted by DieScum
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Pretty much the same in Lithuania and Latvia too.I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light. -
Cheers Paddy !Originally posted by PaddySenior Network & Video Engineer
My client are looking for a Senior Network & Video Engineer to work in an leading edge porno communications environment. Main duties: maintain cleints billing for girls rooms. Help in the design of corporate & demonstration deployment plan and work with product teams/engineering and porno artists to define best practice deployment guidelines. Maintain statistics on use, frequency of problems, resolution of problems, time to resolution, etc. Help train girls to use various eqipment in the proper use of more ->
Type: Contract Location: Sofia Country: Bulgeria Start: ASAP Posted: 04/08/2006 12:09:51 Reference: JSHH408887
As an IT Whore Id love to work in the porno industry ... tell you what Ill doorit for a fiver an hour ...
At this point in time I feel obliged to tell you all the origins of the FIVER saga.
On old buddy of mine related a rather grizzly story of how he came to be wakling through the Soho backstreets one rainy February evening when suddenly he was approached by a slime ball character with no teeth and shabbily dressed who said
Ill blow yer for a Fiver mate
Needless to say my friend declined his generous offer yet I found it hugely amusing and hence the FIVER quote was born.
Anyway Im off for a quick game of Polo ...Toodles all !Comment
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Taxation tends to be complex in Eastern Europe.Originally posted by DieScumActually I'm looking at this and the tax implications are huge. Apparently Estonia has a flat rate of income tax set at 23%. That would be nice.
In other countries you can find a flat rate of income tax as low as 16% (Romania). However, NIC and other taxes on salary can be very high.
I presume that you will invoice through your UK based company, in that case you can live tax-free in Eastern Europe, but you will pay tax in UK.
With all this EU enlargement we might have very complex tax situations in a couple of years e.g. resident in Hungary (but stay there and work only for 6 months/year), holiday in UK 3 months, a 3 months contract in Netherlands. At the same time invoice a small piece of work to a client in Germany through a company based in UK ...
I wonder what will happen because there are some unusual tax cases like this one already...The rest is silence...Comment
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