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The first I knew about it was when I recieved the partnership page, which took Von Essen to badger Bradbury for it.
Heck I wasn't even informed that I'd been moved to Von Essen or why, I just started getting drawings emails from them rather than Reed Morgan.
Last I heard from Bradbury was that...
Off the top of my head I think the forecast was for approx 4%, and the actual charges are about 14%.
Bradbury's website states it's simply because the running of partnerships cost more than they expected.
The tax bill of £7500ish was the tax from 08/09 under Sunday, and 09/10 payments on account under Von Essen.
Even if I get the profit share from Sunday, it's only just over £2000 (thanks to being charged £5000 to "run" the partnership, despite initial forcast was for about 1/5th of that) so it...
Well, after help from the director of the international office, they managed to get hold of someone in the UK office who appologised and said it would be paid the next day by the afternoon.
It was :D
Also had a missed call and VM from Sally saying they were calling to confirm the payment had...
Well after finding out how much Sunday have cost me, I now have Von Essen witholding monies due.
Apparently they're in one bank account and their bank is taking it's time (hmm, over a month?) to transfer the money into another account so it can be distributed to me.
Pull the other one.
Calling...