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Just to echo the importance of this, I had to swap to a new umbrella at the start of April (due to the agency enforcing a PSL). It took a while to sort out the paperwork, so I had 2 weeks with no money, then I got paid for 3 weeks at once. A few days later, I had an email from HMRC to say that my tax...
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Yes, absolutely. I've checked my old SATRs and I've always ticked that box (where relevant).
Yeah, I had the same thought. Maybe there's a situation where they could be different, e.g. with a parent company? But I suspect it's just a badly designed form!...
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I've had a look at the gov.uk site:
Self Assessment tax returns: Who must send a tax return - GOV.UK
That doesn't mention close companies.
Likewise, I went through the questionnaire here:
Check if you need to send a Self Assessment tax return - GOV.UK
It asks whether...
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If you're an IPSE member and you haven't had any emails from them recently, it's worth checking your spam folder. Basically, the DKIM signature in the email headers doesn't match their DNS records, which means that the DMARC check fails, and the DMARC action is "Quarantine". I've emailed them...
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Umbrella payslip periods (end of FY)
I've worked through a few umbrellas, and they seem to handle the payslip period differently. This has implications for the end of the financial year.
* DASA Umbrella said that the period matched the date on my timesheet, so the days that I worked in the week before Easter (week ending Fri...
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You say "nobody", but there are some people (including some Reform voters) who are absolutely against those things. E.g. I've spoken to elderly relatives (Boomer generation) who don't view black people as being properly British, regardless of what job they do.
Thinking about Windrush,...
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