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    Short term work in Haiti - a good idea?

    Security Security Just to add to my earlier post and comment on the post above, that's sort of what I was getting at....... The problem with security though is that the security that Joe Bloggs gets is never high end FBI type stuff...... It tends to be some poor sod(s) who's paid peanuts to...
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    Short term work in Haiti - a good idea?

    Haiti Haiti Ross Kemp also did a special on the situation there, including the poverty, corruption and crime...... I know this is the case in a lot of countries but from what I saw and other news articles I've read/heard i don't know if any money would be worth it! The other thing to...
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    Accountant - Crossover To Excel developer? How feasible?

    Hi Scrag Meister, That's good to know, especially coming from someone who has experience in the field........... Thanks for taking the time to respond, much appreciated. Baffle
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    Accountant - Crossover To Excel developer? How feasible?

    Thanks, I've just a had a quick look and sounds promising, many thanks for the heads up :happy
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    Accountant - Crossover To Excel developer? How feasible?

    Thanks for the response. Makes perfect sense, as with all fields of work, companies don't like paying interim rates to 'give someone a shot'. I'll start doing some research and see what's about. Cheers
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    Accountant - Crossover To Excel developer? How feasible?

    Hi, Thanks for your response. To be honest, I'm not sure, I'm sort of getting the idea from here:- Excel VBA Developer Contracts, Contractor Rates for an Excel VBA Developer The issue isn't so much that rates are being pushed down on the modelling side of things, it's that roles are being...
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    Accountant - Crossover To Excel developer? How feasible?

    Hi All, I'm after a bit of advice. I'm a qualified accountant by trade, gained in industry and commerce and not practice. I have been a contractor for the last 10 years, and in the last few years my skills have taken me into blue chip companies, pretty much spending my entire time creating...
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    Limited Company, Personal account and Agency

    Hi, Just a side note but you could have opened up an account with cashplus Business. They open up a bank account in your company name. No credit facilities so no credit checks etc. You would just need to prove your ID and address. I see you've gone umbrella route anyway now, but just...
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    Backdating Company Pension Contributions re: IR35 investigation

    Hi, Correct, that was exactly what I was asking. I was referring to legal tax relief on pensions etc. Not fiddling accounts with tip-ex to change date! Thanks for your contribution IR35avoider, your answer re: prior year liability and current year allowance makes a lot of sense, as I...
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    SJD Advice on RTI Changes to payroll

    Hi Jim, As far as I am aware HMRC would not see the frequency of your dividend payments, unless you we're investigated anyway. As far as salary is concerned, I personally opt for monthly. The pure reason being I see no benefit to a single payment as opposed to monthly payments. Despite...
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    SJD Advice on RTI Changes to payroll

    What salary were they basing that tax free dividends figure on? Isn't the allowance for 13/14 around 41k for salary and dividends? Prior to higher rate? Meaning if most took a minimal salary of around 8k this would leave around 33k that could be taken as dividends? 11 x £2600 = £28600, so is...
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    Backdating Company Pension Contributions re: IR35 investigation

    Lisa, Many thanks for your response. Ok, well as I say purely a theoretical question anyway and certainly wouldn't want to fall foul of evasion so would not attempt it if the situation arises, was just curious as to whether or not it could be done - obviously not! Thanks
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    Backdating Company Pension Contributions re: IR35 investigation

    Malvolio, I fully understand that pensions do not reduce the risk, they merely reduce liability. So I don't see your point about not being versed on IR35? What I meant by the comment is that I have not just set up shop without taking professional advice etc many have. When calculating the...
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    Backdating Company Pension Contributions re: IR35 investigation

    All, This is purely a theoretical question, but if anybody has any information that would be great. Just for background purposes, I’m a fairly new business (Only trading 3 months!) but I am reasonably well versed re: IR35 and took all the necessary precautions when starting out. I expect to...
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