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Recent content by jlrowe

  1. jlrowe

    Pension Contributions

    Not that this is specifically contractor related, but you can pay into your childs pension, they will get 20% tax relief on a minimum contribution - even though they haven't had any earnings. You can pay in £2800 and then an additional £800ish is claimed back from HMRC - this is per child.
  2. jlrowe

    The VAT switch back to 17.5%

    Your accountant is talking nonsense, VAT is applied on the invoice date - regardless of when the work was done. Pick your invoice date and then pick your VAT rate - simple.
  3. jlrowe

    4GB RAM reported as 2GB in XP SP2 (32bit)

    The most you can get is 3gb, you need to add the /3gb to your boot.ini - otherwise the max is 2gb. The rest of the address space (either 2gb or 1gb) is used to memory map devices. Roll on 64 bit windows...
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    Were these suicide bombings?

    With all the people covered in soot, sounds like the tube explosions were deep down. Could this be our 'madrid', except those were remotely detonated by mobile?

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