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Recent content by tomtomagain
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Recruiter demanded that our interview be recorded
Do the interview, get the role ( or don't get the role ), then invoke your right to be forgotten under GDPR.- tomtomagain
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Legal Tax Mitigation - advice
Well if you stop enjoying yourself, socialising, holidaying and buying the latest gadgets then you too can spend your evenings fretting about your hypothetical tax position by the time you hit 55. As stated by _V_ it's surprisingly easy to get close within a decade or two of saving. Over a 35...- tomtomagain
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Legal Tax Mitigation - advice
You need to avoid breaching the lifetime allowance, currently £1m + a bit, because once you do you will pay tax of 55% on anything over that. And you pay tax on your withdrawals as though they were income ( over the personal allowance ). In short, pension tax is complicated, and certainly not...- tomtomagain
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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More energy saving tips
I diligently followed all these tips and with the money I saved bought a couple of cheap flights from London to Dublin. That was the point, wasn't it?- tomtomagain
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- Forum: General
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The Garudian Down
I'm not sure I'd want HM Gov spending £m on the hardware and technical resources required to provide a CDN of the same quality and performance as that offered by Fastly and the other key players in the industry. I'm sure if they ( Fastly ) continue to be unreliable, then people will switch to...- tomtomagain
- Post #21
- Forum: General
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The Garudian Down
The point is that a CDN can provide websites with a facility that they could rarely afford on their own.- tomtomagain
- Post #14
- Forum: General
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The Garudian Down
I suggest they roll back the change they just made ...- tomtomagain
- Post #10
- Forum: General
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Pricing bespoke adaptation of existing product
True. I agree with you too :-) What I was trying to say is don't price it purely based on what it will take you to do. It should be priced on what it's worth to the end-customer.- tomtomagain
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Pricing bespoke adaptation of existing product
If you own the product, then, whatever happens, make sure you continue to own the product and all it's related IP after the enhancement has been completed. I have been in this situation numerous times with my own product, when a large corp. asks me to make a bespoke enhancement I always make it...- tomtomagain
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Harry Potter Studio Tour…
If you have kids then be prepared to take out a second mortgage if you dare to enter the gift shop.- tomtomagain
- Post #10
- Forum: General
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Does anyone have any experience of servicing US clients from the UK?
It's reasonably easy to do business with clients in the US from a base in the UK. You'll almost certainly need to complete a W8-BEN-E form. The US company will ask you for your W9 ... you tell them that as you are a foreign entity it's the W8 that they need. Don't register with the IRS...- tomtomagain
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EU threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine
And Pfizer is a US company with manufacturing facilities all over.- tomtomagain
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- Forum: General
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EU threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine
To be fair, they are threatening to block exports to all third-countries. The Canadians & Israelis et all will be greatly impacted. Fortunately, the UK has the manufacturing capability for the AZ jab in-country. So it's unlikely to cause much of a problem to the UK. Terrible PR for the EU...- tomtomagain
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