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Previously on "Travelling to work 'is work'"

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  • d000hg
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    We should set up a a charity "Help the Rich".

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  • DimPrawn
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    Not just us getting fed up with Georgie Porgie....

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  • SlipTheJab
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Surely B2B relationships are free from these pesky rules about 'rights'?
    Aah but we're not B2B are we, we're all disguised employees ripping off the taxman . In fact we're a business when it suits HMRC and not when it doesn't...

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    So if MyCoLtd requires me to travel to and from a client's premises for the purpose of providing services, surely expenses incurred by such travel ought to be reimbursed, as that's working time? This could presumably have implications for little Georgy Osborne's ideas about travel expenses, if some lawyer gets their grubby mitts on it
    Surely B2B relationships are free from these pesky rules about 'rights'?

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  • AtW
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    Everything depends on billing...

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    I hope you get your travel expenses so you don't have to downgrade to Aldi burgers...
    I'll buy Aldi value mince, then I can squidge it into a lump and call it a handmade artisanal burger

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    I'm sure a suitably skilled lawyer can twist things to fit
    HMRC run the government and make laws to suit themselves. Like retrospective legislation.

    I know you have been highly supportive - its not personal.

    I hope you get your travel expenses so you don't have to downgrade to Aldi burgers...

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    I've always included travel time when calculating my true hourly rate.

    So if the London contract commute adds 4 hours to the day on average, calculate the hourly rate based on 11 or 12 hours, not 7 or 8 spent at your desk.

    Commuting sucks. The Hooman Rights court should ban it as inhuman.
    Hopefully this directive will keep foreigners out of London.

    Damned Swindon immigrants coming here and taking our jobs.

    LIP
    London Independence Party

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Its only to do with working hours.

    If your ltd is making you work too many hours then sue them.

    Regards
    HMRC
    I'm sure a suitably skilled lawyer can twist things to fit

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    So if MyCoLtd requires me to travel to and from a client's premises for the purpose of providing services, surely expenses incurred by such travel ought to be reimbursed, as that's working time? This could presumably have implications for little Georgy Osborne's ideas about travel expenses, if some lawyer gets their grubby mitts on it
    Its only to do with working hours.

    If your ltd is making you work too many hours then sue them.

    Regards
    HMRC

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  • DimPrawn
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    I've always included travel time when calculating my true hourly rate.

    So if the London contract commute adds 4 hours to the day on average, calculate the hourly rate based on 11 or 12 hours, not 7 or 8 spent at your desk.

    Commuting sucks. The Hooman Rights court should ban it as inhuman.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules - BBC News

    Of course it is.

    <as cojak swans off at 14.30>
    So if MyCoLtd requires me to travel to and from a client's premises for the purpose of providing services, surely expenses incurred by such travel ought to be reimbursed, as that's working time? This could presumably have implications for little Georgy Osborne's ideas about travel expenses, if some lawyer gets their grubby mitts on it

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  • cojak
    started a topic Travelling to work 'is work'

    Travelling to work 'is work'

    Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules - BBC News

    Of course it is.

    <as cojak swans off at 14.30>
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