It depends on what where you are starting testing from - if you are starting from this is what the business want you start from the business, if you start from just about works and does what is described you start from the list of tools..
You can probably tell which one I regard as more...
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Looks at the internal advice at current clientco.
Don't leverage borrowing on a depreciating asset and London prices are still falling and have some way left to go.....
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The technology I dev for started in 2003 and although bits have changed an awful lot of it hasn't.
Pointing out i've 18 years of experience and know exactly where most of the bodies of failed projects are buried doesn't do me any harm......
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HMRC will be outside and probably via Equal Experts (or at least that is the consultancy / agency they used to use....
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HMRC's logic will be that HR are not supposed to read anything into a tax code - as if that is the case in the real world......
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Love to know where you can insure the risk of an agency going belly up, factoring companies don't work like that.
But equally I don't particularly want a small agency potentially owing me 2 months money (monthly billing on 30 day terms)....
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That's the thing - all this tax change does is to create a race to create instruments that look like cash investments but aren't subject to the tax....
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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; 29 June 2026, 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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