PSL will determine who the agency will work with so you ask the agent for the list and the Key Information Documents for the umbrellas on the PSL
Avoid any that won't talk about pension contributions as chances are they will be looking to play games to earn a few more quid in a way they...
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If you can go when they are doing a tour - I didn't on one and to be frank without it the museum was a bit meh, what was behind this.
Earlier in the day we did the https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/.../old-dock-tour which was very good....
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Have you followed the end results or the day to day proceedings?
I suspect this is very much how the full court case goes but the judgement rarely focusses on any of the anger - it will focus on the law and ignore the sales pitches..
I do think that watching an tribunal unless...Last edited by eek; Today, 07:02.
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The Western Approaches museum in Liverpool has an permanent exhibition on the Wrens - it was about the best part of the museum.
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Dan Neidle has an update on the court case that Barrowman and Mone lost see https://x.com/DanNeidle/status/2069709214985924676
- was debating whether to post it here but the last company being sued to recover the money is Knox House Trustees (UK) Limited
https://caseboard....
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We have an update on the court case that Barrowman and co lost.
There liquidators are now chasing the money from any and all companies they can link to the delightful couple
https://x.com/DanNeidle/status/2069709214985924676
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It’s worse than that he’s asking people many of whom can code or even vibe code a similar system in no time at all.
the fact I’ve found Gmail has done the job for 20 years doesn’t help either. Apply for contract , phone rings find out name and quick search gives me the details...
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It's not how they do salary sacrifice into SIPPs it is how they use Salary sacrifice instead of the more typical 5% employer / 3% employee contribution and then pocket all or most of the NI savings that approach generates.
Now I can see the logic behind doing it but if you are going to...Last edited by eek; 22 June 2026, 15:39.
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Parasol and Paystream are on my naughty boy steps for playing tricks with pensions and the fact they miss pensions off their KIDs to hide that fact a while longer...
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If you aren’t going for a SIPP look at the key information documents and avoid the ones who don’t list pensions as a employer deduction because there is a reason behind that - umbrellas are starting to use salary sacrifice games to pocket any employer NI savings from pensions....
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while pensions may be a personal decision - with the forthcoming salary sacrifice changes I would be throwing as much as possible into my pension pot before April 2029. After that you may as well take it as salary given the 15% tax....
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There are 2 things we currently know
1) Dan is doing something
2) everyone else has gone quiet.
One thing I do know is that no law firm such as Trethowans will want their name attached in the mind of the general public to money grabbing by failed tax avoidance schemes....
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Thinking about it overnight I was wondering if there is something incriminating within the documentation that they would need to send because an SAR really shouldn't be that difficult to deal with once you know the client. It's really just here is the paperwork we've already sent being sent again and...Last edited by eek; 11 June 2026, 13:40.
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You are paying him money for a tiny amount of work done, HMRC really aren't going to care......
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£4000 whilst at university - just pay him via PAYE.
why on earth do people make things stupidly complex...
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I created a longer reply but it's basically ^^^
I would also mention that you will be passing this to the Solicitor's Regulation Authority as it would be 1 thing if MrO666 or I (neither of us are part of this) were raising frivolous SAR requests to create work but you made the request because...Last edited by eek; 10 June 2026, 17:31.
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SAR will take at least a month to process - send them now as it just creates work for them to deal with...
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As I pointed out to Simon earlier that's been around in almost the same format since 9th Feb 2022.
In fact the last changes was adding "This is a rare occurrence and" removing the word recent....
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