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[malvolio]

Remember that such clauses have to pass the test of "Reasonableness". If your work is not going to impact the original client's business, or you are not privy to commercially confidential information for example, a year would fail that test....

[malvolio]

Best of luck, of course, but it's not merely about "work done", it's about "work done to the required standard defined in the contract". The client may disagree that you have met that requirement. And that is outside the scope of the agency to determine; the fact that your contract...

[malvolio]

Unlikely, but they have been removed from the FCSA's register. ISTR the FCSA requirements excluded non-UK ownership...

[malvolio]

So the mitigation of the risk of an umbrella failing is to set up more umbrellas.

Hmmm, makes sense - in a Reevsian kind of way.

And the detail will be in the Green Book, not ITEPA...

[malvolio]

OK, the disincentive is a minor thing, I agree. Not so sure about the message this is sending though.

However, where will the money be spent? People like Khan and his peers don't have a good reputation for wise investments....

[malvolio]

What a great idea. We already don't allow VAT discounts for visitors, now we can charge them to come here.

Paris and Milan will be even more delighted.

[malvolio]

Rise of the far right? Really?

That would be the least of our problems. Unless you're one of the 4% that thinks HMG are doing a good job....

[malvolio]

It won't go away. Any party, least of all this one, wants to be accused of increasing the level of income tax, which is what merging NICs into Income Tax would mean to the man in the street.

Plus you would double the tax burden on everyone over the retirement age.......

[malvolio]

They already are. Quite a lot of us are paying it......

[malvolio]

I don't think anyone other than journalists takes any notice of what passes as a manifesto these days. Not even the clowns that write them.

Most parties get elected on the basis of how their leader appears on the telly. Policies are a long way over the horizon....

[malvolio]

Somebody else running without a proactive accountant? I don't trouble ours much these days, but they do flag up all the significant things we may have missed......

[malvolio]

Well yes, they can, if there is a "skill" - something created by the supplier to act as the interface - in the Alexa library of such things (and there's hundreds of them, some quite obscure). I merely query the value of this particular exercise, but that's just my opinion.

Our...

[malvolio]

If we ignore Corporation Tax, CGT and VAT of course.......

[malvolio]

How do you propose doing this without an app to read the information....?

We use Hive, both on the phones and tablets and with Alexa if we're being really lazy. I suspect (but don't know) the latest AV versions of Alexa can show the temperature in real time. But in reality, we leave it...

[malvolio]

You don't suppose the local guy would have to sub out the specialised stuff to the same people, meaning you're paying for them plus his margin plus his profits on top......

[malvolio]

Dear old Sky. did a basket case job for them a while ago, 6 months of wasted time and effort as far as I was concerned. Should have been suspicious when I had to fly up to Scotland for a 20 minute interview, should have walked away when the lead consultant turned out to be someone with no people skills...

[malvolio]

My wife's rheumatoid arthritis means she can't walk to the local shops about 500 yards away. Should the state be paying her as a result? What would she be paid for, exactly - free taxis?

Yes, many people need support for such tings, that's not in dispute. But there seem to be an awful lot...

[malvolio]

It's sillier than that. If my state pension goes up, my tax free allowance goes down by the same amount. So the other pension (also paid for by me over many years) returns less income. Shifting 2% from NICs to tax will make that situation worse.

On paper I'm mortgage free and worth a lot...

[malvolio]

Not at all. Just think what it is aiming top protect.

It costs the sponsor a few thousands as well, so it is not done lightly.

And, of course, there are levels above DV, and different vetting requirements across different organisations even for DV.

It is not as...

[malvolio]

The debt isn't the problem, the interest on the debt is. And it won't go away, in fact it will only get worse, to the point where we can't borrow any more. Money is made on the level of debt interest, so there is no incentive to let it wither away.

That aside, public sector spending is...