MPs Ex-Ministers negotiate their day rate with potential clients

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It’s a joke about the general situation we find ourselves in...

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I wonder if these are Inside IR35? If so, I think they found a way to get around the extra charges

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that’ll help offset the accounts being posted 6 months late...

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Irritatingly, Monzo are great for everything apart from FreeAgent, which they charge you for (which doesn't feel very modern/disruptive). You use the app to authorise certain things, like a normal modern business would. But can download statements and CSVs online (and QIFs that'll go straight into FreeAgent)...

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I'd be keen to know what the CUK decision makers think - are any of the people that run the 'site' posters on here?...

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Rates aren't great at the moment. There's a shortage of roles and recruiters know. Getting a lot of "Maximum the client will pay is X, I've put things forward at higher before and they just get declined" - how do you field these? Is "never accept the first offer" good advice or do...

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Once you've done a few of these you'll be able to answer them very quickly indeed.

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Either the irony of that question must burn for the author to type out, or they have even less self-awareness than previously understood....

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Saw this today by SJD

https://www.contractoruk.com/limited...ccountant.html

Includes the questions:

"What will I get for my money?"

and

"What level of service can I expect?"

Will they be answering...

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A timely reminder to keep your deposits under 85K per institution - dodgy paying-in methods or otherwise

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quite a few; may as well look at alternative avenues by that point. Life is too short....

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Its also often the first line on job role ads.

Times are changing. People are reclaiming their lives - what little of them they have left to use. Will you (rhetorically) be joining in?...

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Can I just check we all got the memo about not throwing fellow contractors under the bus by accepting "X days in office" roles?

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Sometime between July and the August Holiday...

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Crackly line, pause before picking up... "hellooooo?"

I don't know if even these have dried up or if I've blocked them all now...

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Had a phone interview last week. A panel interview (always bad) and one of them wanted to spend 98% of the time asking questions about when I'd used this or that methodology in the past, leaving 2% of the time to talk about the actual project. ffs....

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I was also offered a contract recently that listed data leak kings Parasol as a "trusted partner"... your own research would probably lead you away from them...

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Given home insurance policies won't cover business laptops and phones etc, who do you use for your contents?

The usually reliable Hiscox have gone a bit hopeless on me. All I can find in the market is Direct Line Business for megabucks ("we're not on comparison sites!" - yeah,...

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Not sure how quickly you get to 250 on 250/day inside 5 days in office roles......

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Corpo tax to 25% from 19%

And people here were feeling bad about taking £500 furlough