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    Selling Company Vehicle on eBay

    I have a 10 year old company van, which now needs a new gearbox etc., I have decided to sell the vehicle through eBay, I believe I have to charge VAT on the vehicle and also declare the sale on my next VAT return. If I was to receive say £1000 + £200 VAT on the sale of the vehicle, would I then...
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    Lack of work during contract

    Has anybody had an issue with a client not supplying enough work? I am currently not working on a large project and keep being given very small bug fixes on a variety of different systems, however these usually take anywhere between 15 minutes to a couple of hours, I then have to continually...
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    Late payment of invoices

    Payment from my old client is now over 2 months late, absolutely no sign of them paying and no reply to my last email and letter stating that 'if no payment is received within 7 days, legal action will be taken to recover the debt'. I will now start court proceeding on Wednesday. Enough if...
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    Agency margin

    My last agency for a while were getting a margin of -4% for about 5 months, they had given me a rate increase in error and I certainly wasn't going to point it out to them in a hurry. They didn't ask for it back either which was nice of them!:smile
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    Late payment of invoices

    I am also having issues with late payment of invoice from a previous client, the payment is now 6 weeks late. I have now issued a letter to the accounts department requesting immediate payment, phone calls have been made, emails have been sent to the managing director and general manager who...
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    P11D Home as Office

    I am trying to complete the HMRC P11D form on-line and attempting to enter an expense for "Home as Office" and also an amount for Broadband use, however I cannot find which sections of the P11D these go into and most expense boxes also seem to have another box "Amount made good...". If I were to...
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    Ending contract early

    4 weeks to go, perhaps I will approach the client nearer the time, or just use the time to brush up on some other skills!
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    Ending contract early

    I'm currently in a 3 month contract until the end of October, however I'm in one of those rare situations of having literally nothing to do, the client knows this. I'm on a 2 week notice period, what do think my chances are of getting the client to sign 2 weeks worth of time sheets in advance...

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