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Recent content by tacpot
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Asked to go Permie.....
If that is your attitude, you are not suited to permanent work. If you want to work permanently, you will do so for any money. With permanent work, you get the job security of your notice period, some sick pay, and typically various insurances, a pension, a career structure, a manager (who if...- tacpot
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Taper relief = legitimate tax saving?
The ability to wind your company up and take a dividend as a capital distribution (= taxed as CGT rather than Income Tax) is a concession by HMRC. (It is called Extra Statutory Consession C16). You have to apply to your tax inspector to do this. (HMRC examine the situation as pe DimPrawn's...- tacpot
- Post #3
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Quick question on "money management" (Tax)
Pension tax relief Pension tax relief The government will not put any money into your pension fund for contributions from your employer, only from yourself. This is because the money they put in is a tax refund - you have to have paid the tax to have it refunded! It is still better to have...- tacpot
- Post #8
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Accounts Receivable Software
Quickbooks Regular Intuit.co.uk Dead easy to use.- tacpot
- Post #4
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Anybody know where to get cheap laptops from
Laptops Direct? Laptops Direct? www.laptopsdirect.co.uk. I bought an Acer laptop from laptops direct and was happy with the service. They are also offering a cut-price Vodafone 3G card. I got mine free on the Pay-as-you-go tariff, but this offer has now ended; the card is now £49 but if this... -
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How much pocket money to give wife ?
The fair way... The fair way... Work out the family budget, agree with your wife what is non-discretionary spending, e.g. Mortgage, Utility Bills, Cost of food you eat together, your travel to work, Pension contributions, etc. Divide what remains in two; half for you, half for her. Each party... -
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Business Banking
Alliance & Leicester & NatWest Alliance & Leicester & NatWest I had similar problems with A & L Commercial Bank as you are having with BOS in the early days but once the Internet banking system was setup I can do eveything I need to easily - but their Internet banking system requires two user...- tacpot
- Post #2
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Manchester - Agency Recommendations??
I can recommend NetSource I can recommend NetSource I've contracted through NetSource on a number of occasions and found them to be nothing but professional. Contact details are on www.netsource.co.uk- tacpot
- Post #2
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Building a system, Quality is irrelevant, as long as it does what was asked for!?
Quality is your gift... Quality is your gift... Never give less than you are able to give. The client may not know the difference, but you do! Even if your code is never looked at by another pair of eyes, you should leave knowing that it was your best. Your are the quality of your work.- tacpot
- Post #4
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Advice?
It is obvious an error has been made in paying you the same amount via two seperate routes. But, you could suggest that if you issue a cheque, what with postal delays, cheque clearing and the overhead of then reconciling the incoming funds, wouldn't it be better if you hung on the cash, and they...- tacpot
- Post #7
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Stakeholder pension contributions
A Stakeholder is perfectly fine for this. I rang up my Stakeholder Pension co., explained that 'my employer' wanted to make a one-off payment into my Stakeholder pension. They sent me a form to fill out. It was very straightforward, I sent them the form along with a cheque, and the investment...- tacpot
- Post #32
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Contract role to be outsourced - can I tender for it?
Funkyd - Outsourcing Consultant! Funkyd - Outsourcing Consultant! You should be charging more to outsource the IT Support for your customer. Explain to the agency that their customer is asking you to do work that you are not contracted to provide, and that you are not prepared to do unless...- tacpot
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Software Licencing
It depends on where you are being asked to install the software: If you are installing the software on equipment your company owns, you are responsible for purchasing the license. If you are installing the software on equipment the client owns, they are responsible for purchasing the license...- tacpot
- Post #6
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Representation Process
Denny was aiming to clue the contractors into the right way to do it, and I think he has acheived this. Good post! But I think he got off on the wrong foot by starting the post with "... one or two respondees still haven't a clue about how best to deal with recruiters...".- tacpot
- Post #20
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Allegis Group
Allegis Allegis I contracted through Allegis for 9 months, and found them to be very good. I would recommend them as one of the better agencies.- tacpot
- Post #8
- Forum: Business / Contracts
