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Recent content by JohnAbroad
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Permie or Bye, what would you do?
Good advice to go permie if you need/want another house. If you work for bank X, then go to bank Y for mortgage, with employers staff mortgage as benchmark! If you loose your job you loose your staff mortgage. Plus bank Y really work at it, once you convince them it is for real.- JohnAbroad
- Post #24
- Forum: General
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Agencies and Credit Checks
Are checks done with each contract renewal? I can imagine it taking 2 months+ to get mistakes removed from the credit file. There are multiple credit agencies to check with too.- JohnAbroad
- Post #9
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Linux-based answering machine
Candidate hardware might be an early G4 Mac Mini. Debain is popular on them. They had inbuilt modem & fax, very low power consumption. I still run one as a media server under MacOs and VLC. Very Low power consumption.- JohnAbroad
- Post #2
- Forum: Technical
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IR35 - how many investigations per year?
IR35 certainly was a deterrent for me, especially the retrospective application of it. The UK market was looking weaker for me work wise at the time, and the prospect of a thumping retrospective tax bill, pushed things over the edge and I decided to contract abroad. I guessed that shutting down...- JohnAbroad
- Post #25
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Minimum daily rate you'd accept in Geneva - same as Zurich?
Geneve is a bit more expensive to live than Zurich, and has higher taxes. But tax is determined by where you live, not where you work, so live in Zurich, work in Geneve, pay Zurich taxes. The homegate site mentioned above has a tax calculator, that allows you to compare two places. This link is...- JohnAbroad
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
