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Help regarding UKCS
has anyone come across UKCS or UK career services.? Like an idiot I have just paid via my credit card £498 to have two CV's Written and help finding a job. The guy phoned me when I was at my most gullible (being unemployed for three months) and everything he said seemed to make sense. it wasn't until I got off the phone…
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Crowd lending for Franchise?
Is this possible? Me and a friend are looking at running a business, however we would like to open a franchise, mainly due to the fact you will already have a brand name behind you. We have a little bit of money we can put into it, however the rest will need to come from funding, we were looking at crowd lending, is this…
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company benefit tax?!
my boss paid for me to travel and stop at a hotel on a work trip. she'll get this cost re-inbustment but she wants the cost to paid to me then me to pay it back to her ? will this effect my tax code/allowance ?
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new claimant comittment
Had anyone signed on under this new regime. Is it much different?
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Unemployed by the end of financial year. Where do I get my p60 from?
Hi, I worked for a couple of companies last financial year but wasn't working by the end of the financial year. My last company tells me that, as I wasn't working for them the last day of the finalcial year, they cannot issue it for me. So... Where do I get it from? HMRC automatically sends it to me by post? Do I have to…
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Advice needed! Long distance learning course
I'm a post graduate in creative writing who's desperately been hunting for a job for nearly a year now. A couple of months ago I decided, in order to give myself an edge in job applications, to do a course in Web Design an obtain some sort of certificate. I'd seen a couple of adverts for ICS so assumed they'd be be a good…
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Passport renewal an allowable expense?
Hi all, My passport is due for renewal in the next couple of months and it set me thinking - about 80% of my travel is purely international travel directly in relation to my job. Anyone ever tried to claim passport renewal as an allowable expense from the HMRC?
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resigning or redundant?
Had conflicting opinions on this one... If my employer decides I must sign up to a new contract of permanent employment and I feel I can't accept the new terms (we are in mass consultation period currently) Am I 'resigning' by not accepting the new offer or am I being made 'redundant' by my current contract being…
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Claiming back work mileage
Hi there, Not entirely sure if this is the best place to post this, but hey-ho. I get 40p per mile from work when I need to travel for them. This is never more than 20 miles each time and it's generally to run errands (take fabric to our seamstress in town, go to the wholesalers to get supplies for meetings etc.) We have…
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Car Allowance
Morning All, I have a question regarding Salaries/Car Allowance and hoped someone maybe be a bit more familiar with this subject than me. I currently earn £32k per year. I have been offered a job paying a basic wage of £30k plus a £5k per year Car Allowance. Would I be right in saying that this effectively means I have…
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Major changes to job description, parts of role taken from me & outsourced
Just really after some general advice here. I work in local government. I joined the LA I work for in 2006, and transferred into my current role in 2010. In July 2013, with no consultation, a large chunk of the financial function I undertook was taken from me, and outsourced for another company to deal with. The…
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Minimum wage for sleepovers
I currently work nights in a residential home where I am paid a set amount for each night shift which , when worked out, is below the minimum wage per hour. I am wakened for 4 hours of the shift and sleeping for 8. It's the sleeping 8 hours of the shift that i am paid the set amount. Should my set amount be at least be the…
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Pre-employment checks - help!
Hi, As part of my pre-employment checks I have to fill out an integrity form, so I want to get this right as I know it's make or break with regards to the job offer. Two questions I have problems with are worded as follows: Financial Integrity and Reliability - Have you ever signed a trust deed for a creditor, made…
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What would you do? Happiness versus money.
I work in PR & Marketing. Where I work currently I get a good wage, I get a decent pension and private healthcare. However I am not happy there at all, my boss is quite a strange man, and whilst the other two members of my team are fine they are quite different from me and we don’t really talk that much. The organisation…
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job centre funding course
hello! my job centre advisor is very "problematic", not to say something far worse he is extremely reluctant in informing me about my rights and what a job centre can offer me (for example that they can cover my travel expenses for an interview, etc) recently it came to my attention that job centre can fund a course of a…
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Suit for Young Professional
MOD - Please move if in wrong place Hello everyone, I read these forums/the website constantly but not a regular poster, so here goes! I am currently a final year student at university and have been offered a graduate position with KPMG (Big 4 accountancy company). One thing that is worrying me is what sort of suit to get.…
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VAT on courses
I am looking at booking an IT course to assist me in my current job the courses are about £540 with VAT. Is there any way to claim the VAT back on the purchase as it's for work?
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Do I need education on my CV?
I'm revamping my CV at the moment, trying different styles and presentations to see if I get a better response from employers, and would like to cut it down to 1 to 1.5 pages. I toying with the idea of taking out the education sector and just having a statement, key accomplishments, employment, and key skills and…
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New career wages and expectations
Hi, I have 15 years experience in the media at various levels (TV director/editor - Corporate work, music videos etc . Always been a bit of a Lone Ranger, rebel. Now a father of a child approaching 4 years old and desperately looking for some stability regards income. Have been self employed for 15 years. For a few years I…
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employed or self employed
I run a small dog grooming business and am going to take on a part time assistant 2 or 3 days a week. The young lady I have in mind already works part time at college and has contracted hours. I was wondering if I should employ her or whether she would be better off as self employed in terms of tax etc, when I was younger…
