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Previously on "Bugger contracting!"

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  • TheMonkey
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    I have private healthcare anyway (not that it's much use).

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  • nobody here but us chicke
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    closing time


    God, I sounded as if I knew what I was talking about back then.

    Try searching in accounting (on this board) for posts by me. I have set it out a couple of times. Long one for Paul Paranoia I think

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  • Fungus
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    Originally posted by janey
    erm surely that should read that you get to jump to the front of the queue to get the same health care as everyone else?!
    No, it means you jump the queue, get diagnosed and cured while the disease is still treatable, and live to a ripe old age, while the oiks around you die prematurely of diseases that could have been treated had they been seen in time. It's not the same thing. Shhhh. Don't tell them.

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  • threaded
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    Important: when companies house stike off the bank account will be closed and any dosh/assets goes to the crown. So make sure you do it in the right order.
    Well, that's not quite correct. That is what they are supposed to do, but they rarely do it. Leaves a big gaping hole for scam artists.

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  • BlasterBates
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    if we count 80k gross income for 200 days in a year, how can you net 60-65k? Isn't that too much?
    Assumes a tax efficient solution

    You should be netting at least 70%. I checked UK tax solutions. In Switzerland it is 70% take home and 10% actually goes into a compulsory private pension fund (not some pathetic public sector black hole), which will be paid out in full if you leave the country within 5 years.

    So 60K is easy peasy.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Without work, all life goes rotten.

    But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.


    Albert Camus

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  • ASB
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    Originally posted by Mailman
    Is this one of those "its only fair" 100% taxes?

    and, did the Emperor Caveat rule Rome?

    Mailman
    Excellent

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    On Permanent Career Jobs and the Work Slave


    You have heard, of course, of those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil that attack the unwary swimmer by thousands and with swift little nibbles clean him up in a few minutes, leaving only an immaculate skeleton?

    Well, that's what the organization is.

    "Do you want a good clean life?
    Like everybody else?"

    You say yes, of course.

    How can one say no?

    "O.K. You'll be cleaned up.

    Here's a job, a family, and organized leisure activities."

    And the little teeth attack the flesh, right down to the bone.

    Having slavery but not calling it that – even denying it and congratulating ourselves for this advance is “useful.” It has two consequences:

    It soothes the consciousness of the slave “owner.”

    The illusion of non-slavery often, even usually, internalized by the slaves themselves, gives them at least some sense of (false) hope.

    “Just between us, slavery, preferably with a smile, is inevitable then. But we must not admit it. Isn't it better that whoever cannot do without having slaves should call them free men?

    For the principle to begin with, and, secondly, not to drive them to despair. We owe them that compensation, don't we?

    In that way, they will continue to smile and we shall maintain our good conscience.”

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  • janey
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    Originally posted by Fungus
    The best health care.
    erm surely that should read that you get to jump to the front of the queue to get the same health care as everyone else?!

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  • Mailman
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    Originally posted by ASB
    Important: when companies house stike off the bank account will be closed and any dosh/assets goes to the crown. So make sure you do it in the right order.

    Caveat Emptor.
    Is this one of those "its only fair" 100% taxes?

    and, did the Emperor Caveat rule Rome?

    Mailman

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  • n5gooner
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    Originally posted by threaded
    Pah, money can buy you love as well.
    I can testify to that €50 in Amsterdam will bring you love, a blow job and some fu*ky fu*ky.

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  • n5gooner
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    Originally posted by threaded
    Nah, that'd be yer average contractor.

    A good contractor can net 140k, three times as many holidays, AND still find time to post on CUK.
    I must be a good contractor then.

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  • Phoenix
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    Sven is a contractor among contractors!

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  • Phoenix
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    Originally posted by TheMonkey
    And what does that money bring you?

    Possessions and nothing else.
    And gorgeous women if your Sven!!

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by Fungus
    Good food.
    That would cost you a lot more than 100k a year in England.

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