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Recent content by claudius

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    Limited company and Subsitance

    How about claiming for breakfast or evening meal if you work shifts? I'm currently on an operations contract working alternate shifts of 07:00 to 14:30 or 14:00 to 21.30(this over runs quite often by at least an hour) Total travel time is an hour each way (2 hours)
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    How long to set up a Ltd?

    Just to clarify, would they pay the proforma invoice inculding the VAT straight away, and the invoice with the VAT number sent on later is just for their records?
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    How long to set up a Ltd?

    I'm 2 weeks into a renewal and just agreed a new rate. Not the best way of doing things I know but I'm quite pleased with the increase. I've been sent the new contract to sign by the agency and I'm a bit uneasy carrying on using an umbrella which I've done for the last year, what with the...
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    parasol IT

    I got payed today again on time. Agency payroll run on a thursday, Parasol has funds by monday, in my bank account via BACS on wednesday. I think thats pretty good. My contract is self billing. Also I sent a query to contracts on the evening of the 17th and got a response the following...
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    parasol IT

    Got paid today (wednesday). Last week I got paid on thursday and the week before on friday. If it carries on like this Parasol will be paying me before the agent pays them, so I can't fault the increase in performance in speed of payment. The agent does their payroll run on a thursday. On a...
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    parasol IT

    I can only judge as I find. I got paid today on time. I'm on a self billing contract through a large agency. Are the problems occurring only for people where an invoice needs to be raised? Does anyone with a self billing contract have a problem getting paid?
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    parasol IT

    I got paid today through BACS after being notified of the transfer on wednesday, which I thought was pretty good. I also got a response to a web ticket from 28th April. However I did send it normal priority, and wasn't in a hurry for a response. Things don't appear that bad. I'd agree with the...
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    Advice for Newbie

    Hi, I'm a newbie. Never contracted before. I've been out of I.T. for a few years but it seems my old skills are still in demand. I've a chance of a contract in operations/technical support on some old kit I used to work on in the nineties. Minis/small mainframe. The rate offered is £25 an...

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