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what about partnerships ?
Not sure how nessecary it is legally but at least if you're in a partnership you're in a better position to genuinely be able to come up with a substitute (re IR35/substitution clause) I'm thinking about the whole partnership thing cuz I'm having problems coming up w/ a name I'd like to use... :D- lith
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- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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using an offshore company ?
Ah ok.. Would that mean register and the company (not just employees working in the UK) pay tax to the UK after that 6 months, as if they were in the UK? *I'm listening and paying attention to your advice* :pp I wonder how this works for e.g. outsourcing coding or call centres to places like...- lith
- Post #45
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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using an offshore company ?
Er which particular "tw@t" are you referring to? :)- lith
- Post #43
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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using an offshore company ?
Then you go over to Germany and they're saying not just every German man and dog, every UK, French Italian etc etc. Then over in France they're saying... :p- lith
- Post #40
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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More 2 year expense queries!
:p sorry. Too long doing support where if it's not long enough we must be hiding smth :pp Hm. Wonder if any info about hmrc investigations is public? i.e. set a precedent on what the taxman has decided it all actually means to back you up! My opinion is going to be bias, that yep that is...- lith
- Post #5
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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So, what time do you have to get up??
Best was when the customer's site was the other side of the road from where I was staying Sleep in until early afternoon, phone call.. "hi! sorry not at my desk right now, call you back in 10!" quick shower, dash across the road...longest bit was waiting for the lights to change at the crossing... -
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More 2 year expense queries!
Well... I think it could mean several things, that's the whole problem! And I think it is more up to what the tax'persons' think it means than me as an average person. Unfortunately I don't get to make the rules... :) Maybe different rules apply, but if e.g. you were doing small-scale PC...- lith
- Post #4
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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using an offshore company ?
That's the bit I'm getting at, if the funds stay outside the UK You'd have a problem (legally) bringing the money back into the UK, but what if by the time you wanted to pay out the assets/cash from the company, you were no longer residing where the company was registered, and not in the UK...- lith
- Post #29
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Favourite coffee
Out of all the chains... AMT at train stations. Never had a bad one, reasonable price, sensible size and 100% fairtrade. None of that thinking "well for another 30p I can get..." and having a huge cup you don't really want... Wetherspoons shortly before last orders back when they had a special... -
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using an offshore company ?
Hm, what if it's in another country with a slightly beneficial double-tax agreement, and has another major shareholder (resident in the country) who has an active role in the company... say investing €s earnt by the company providing services to the UK As long as the you (in the UK) pay all the...- lith
- Post #24
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Chaning the subnet on Linux and Solaris boxes
Almost..Solaris you have e.g. /etc/hostname.hme0 (literally hostname not the actual hostname) which contains just the hostname, one file for each interface/sub interface The IP gets looked up from /etc/hosts ...just got the one /etc/hosts That's as well as the netmasks *points a few posts up*... -
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More 2 year expense queries!
Hi, Apologies if this has been covered in previous threads, not managed to find it so far...! I've had my current contract extended way over the 24 month period (almost 4 years now) so no more travel expenses. Lots of lovely tax The client is currently in the process of a big merger, so my...- lith
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