Umbrella jokers

[elsergiovolador]

Yes, they cannot take it from your rate, but can negotiate a new rate that has employer's ni deducted.

You couldn't make it up.

I am still amazed that nobody has not said anything how idiotic this change is (except Lords maybe)

If I was a PM I would fire the whole department.

[Scoobos]

I'm hating it - I'm working for the NHS for already 25% of my daily rate, on pandemic related stuff, for the short term.

I have to use an umbrella and the stuff they spout is just insane.

"You don't pay employers NI, because that would be illegal"

but I do though, don't I ? If I give you my daily rate then you deduct it.

"No, your agent should be paying it - you should be getting a daily rate thats already less NI and your agency pays the employers NI"

But I'm employed by you, for tax purposes aren't I?

"No, you are self employed".

ROFL.. ok then, take your 40% of my already meager rate.

[Old Greg]

Oh this one just keeps giving and giving.



Even more so than dear old Gricer.

Inneresting that you you should say that.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Top 2% are not allowed to be desperate? Person at £85k is hardly rich and I've seen people earning this much and living from paycheck to paycheck. I am sure person on that salary could go into shared accommodation, rent a room, eat baked beans and go camping to Yorkshire on holiday once every five years and feel like Trump, but that is not the reality.

Oh this one just keeps giving and giving.



Even more so than dear old Gricer.

[Old Greg]

Top 2% are not allowed to be desperate? Person at £85k is hardly rich and I've seen people earning this much and living from paycheck to paycheck. I am sure person on that salary could go into shared accommodation, rent a room, eat baked beans and go camping to Yorkshire on holiday once every five years and feel like Trump, but that is not the reality.

Of course they're allowed to be desperate, if they're snowflakes.

[elsergiovolador]

Maybe you should have a fundraiser to set up a helpline for people in the top 2% of earners (>£85k approx.) of earners, who are desperate, and driven into the arms of disguised remuneration loan sharks by high taxation rates.

Top 2% are not allowed to be desperate? Person at £85k is hardly rich and I've seen people earning this much and living from paycheck to paycheck. I am sure person on that salary could go into shared accommodation, rent a room, eat baked beans and go camping to Yorkshire on holiday once every five years and feel like Trump, but that is not the reality.

[Old Greg]

Current taxation is ridiculous, so people feel desperate.

Maybe you should have a fundraiser to set up a helpline for people in the top 2% of earners (>£85k approx.) of earners, who are desperate, and driven into the arms of disguised remuneration loan sharks by high taxation rates.

[elsergiovolador]

Because people must be still falling for it.

Current taxation is ridiculous, so people feel desperate.

[Old Greg]

I got a phone call yesterday, offering accountancy services for £60 a year! After I told him i was happy with my current account, he then told me I could take 90% of my rate, at which point i put the phone down

You're missing out on the fun. I say I've got an offer of 92% and ask if they can beat it. The response is either that they can match / beat it, or ridicule that it's possible to achieve 92%.

[silent bob]

I got a phone call yesterday, offering accountancy services for £60 a year! After I told him i was happy with my current account, he then told me I could take 90% of my rate, at which point i put the phone down

[Lance]

email Spam is really cheap to do.
Doesn't need many mugs to sign up to these to make it a viable business (if you can call it that).

EDIT: why not DSAR their ass just because?

[Old Greg]

Because people must be still falling for it.

And missing out on the 120% take home pay offered by Oude Joris Max 120.

[DealorNoDeal]

How do these guys still operate ?

Because people must be still falling for it.

[GhostofTarbera]

How do these guys still operate ? - email this morning

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