Reply to: Time for tin hats in the age of austerity

[ASB]

I've been offered a 4 year post in Dubai. £100000 pa + free accommodation & food. car, fuel and driver. 4 return flights a year.

Oh! did I mention Tax free

Wifey doesn't want me to go

May have to once the starving homeless hoards start stalking the streets over here

Be careful on the beach after Sunday brunch.

[BigTime]

I think you get 56 days a year in the UK for holidays.

I would have thought you declare that you have left to IR and then the 90ish day a year rule applies, where you can be in the country for up to something like 182 days a year but no more than an average of 90-something in the last 4 years. Phone Hector.

[KentPhilip]

Even for a two week holiday?

I think you get 56 days a year in the UK for holidays.

[Diver]

If you return to Britain in the same tax year, you have to declare it and then it is taxed.

Even for a two week holiday?

[GreenerGrass]

Altough you may recall I quoted Greenspan back in February as saying the credit crises would pose a 'disturbing new economic reality'.... spoilsport - eh?

As one of the chief architects of the whole thing you'd think Greenspan would have gone into hiding by now.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I think much of this credit-crunch-doom is overblown by conspiracy theorists-terrorists-ne'erdowells- everything is going to be just fine fine fine.

Altough you may recall I quoted Greenspan back in February as saying the credit crises would pose a 'disturbing new economic reality'.... spoilsport - eh?

On the lighter side - it wasnt very long ago that GW Bush said of his excellency Mr Blair that ' you can take what that guy says and put it in the bank'.

Quite Mr Bush - quite.

[BlasterBates]

If you return to Britain in the same tax year, you have to declare it and then it is taxed.

[beaker]

My contact in the gulf is direct with a marine civil's company HR department.
It isn't an IT post. It's Marine civils & Project supervisor on harbour & jetty construction.

As for the Tax thing. I haven't a clue, but thanks for the hint

I read somewhere that you need to be in Dubai for their full tax year to get paid tax free. But 100K tax free sure is tempting...

[Diver]

Impressive
The gulf option is getting seriously tempting (do I mean temp-pting) no.

Are there any decent agencies that handle work out there?

Second question: Do you have to stay in Dubai or wherever for a whole year to qualify for tax-free status. Or can you do a spell in France as well during the year (by which I mean rowing a boat from France over to Jersey/guernsey and sneaking back into blighty for a pack of chips and a pint.)

My contact in the gulf is direct with a marine civil's company HR department.
It isn't an IT post. It's Marine civils & Project supervisor on harbour & jetty construction.

As for the Tax thing. I haven't a clue, but thanks for the hint

[KentPhilip]

I've been offered a 4 year post in Dubai. £100000 pa + free accommodation & food. car, fuel and driver. 4 return flights a year.

Oh! did I mention Tax free

Wifey doesn't want me to go

May have to once the starving homeless hoards start stalking the streets over here

Impressive
The gulf option is getting seriously tempting (do I mean temp-pting) no.

Are there any decent agencies that handle work out there?

Second question: Do you have to stay in Dubai or wherever for a whole year to qualify for tax-free status. Or can you do a spell in France as well during the year (by which I mean rowing a boat from France over to Jersey/guernsey and sneaking back into blighty for a pack of chips and a pint.)

[AtW]

Still had more cash in bank

Only this time banks are dropping like flies!

[Diver]

I've been offered a 4 year post in Dubai. £100000 pa + free accommodation & food. car, fuel and driver. 4 return flights a year.

Oh! did I mention Tax free

Wifey doesn't want me to go

May have to once the starving homeless hoards start stalking the streets over here

[BrowneIssue]

Oh, deary, deary, dear. And there's me just started a long term, public sector gig.

[swamp]

The contract market hasn't (yet) dropped off the proverbial cliff.

In the 2001-2003 downturn most job sectors were OK or recovered quickly, apart from IT where contractors and permies has a bad time. This time round it's holding up well. Of course if we have a general recession/depression then we're all f***ked, but in the meantime believe it if and when it happens.

[oracleslave]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4882519.ece

Hope you're all prepared for a good dose of bench time and/or crappy rates for the next year or two. Hope you've all squirreled away enough nuts to survive the long economic winter that's about to desend upon us. Feel sorry for those shackled by big mortgages, school fees, debts and all those expensive thinggies we commit to during the good times. Never mind, there's always the permie jobs out there - or maybe not.

As in not post it at all?