Advanced holiday pay (i.e. receiving it immediately when you are paid for the week you've just worked) is something we've discussed multiple times here - usually when someone complains about an umbrella stealing it.
The only reason why holiday pay should be being retained by an umbrella...
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Given that you are still ill (and contagious) I would send your mum and brother an apology and skip this week....
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That's the same level of job that is being offered at £750 a day inside.....
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Just saw a post from one of the specialist agencies on LinkedIn.
once upon a time there was 10-14 consultants all focused on a tiny part of my niche. Now the team consists of 5 people...
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On holidays - don’t provide them any reason to reject you, so keep quiet about holidays until it’s too late. Especially now because once next week has been and gone we will be in the wind down to Easter holidays anyway...
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Any extra that isn’t included within the umbrellas margin has to be taken out of your gross pay (HMRC rules and the law)
its why some umbrellas (Giant) have different schemes with different margins / rates and you pick the scheme most appropriate for you use case and that allows everything...
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It's right but the fact you are subject to Holiday Accrual and they are deducting it from Gross Pay is where your confusion comes from because the employment side of the costs of the holiday pay still need to be accounted for but no longer fit into the employer NI / Apprenticeship levy fields
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Usually less subterfuge than that - nowadays the UK company will pay minimum wage with everything else sent to the overseas company and then “loaned” back...
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Kicking in at £60k means it impacts fewer families ideally it would be binned but a higher starting point and taper at 10% rather than 20% is a vast improvement on what was there before...
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In this case I suspect a lot of the money didn’t go to the UK front company but straight to the IoM company.
but it’s fraud by misrepresentation if SmartPay UK say Jane Smith is employed by SmartPay UK when she’s actually employed by SmartPay IoM...
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and suddenly you go from tax avoidance (which the employee gets shafted about) to fraud, which is a definite criminal offence......
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DWP IT degree apprenticeships earn £28,000 a year get a civil service pension and 1 day off for university.
Just want to show how bad the pay being offered is...
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Not 100% sure which thread was the best one to post this on so this one will do
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/04/..._shadow_fraud/
Dan Neidle has evidence that MR Barrowman committed fraud by misrepresenting which company workers were working through paperwork to agency...
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Not 100% sure which thread was the best one to post this on so this one will do
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/04/..._shadow_fraud/
Dan Neidle has evidence that MR Barrowman committed fraud by misrepresenting which company workers were working through (paperwork UK...
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1990 I got a small grant for uni and we bought our first house in 1994 - for a think 3times Mrs Eek’s income...
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Holiday pay
reality is that the employer NI starting point is enough to offset the umbrella’s fees. So a straightforward step of deduction 21% off the umbrella rate to work out a PAYE rate
To show the maths to get to the umbrella rate from the Paye rate you need add 13.8%...Last edited by eek; 4 March 2024, 11:50.
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Also don't just use Social Services (they will often try to avoid spending money) it's also worth speaking to Age Concern......
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With my gran the bungalow was rented out which brought in enough (£20,000) to cover what was needed to cover the gap between her pension and the amount required....
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Sorry but any half decent school is subjected to lawyers every year already as people try to get in via appeal - adding lawyers won’t get them anywhere as any half decent school would have seen every possible attempt done some time in the past....
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