Mystery Shopping Thread 23 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES

Big_Graeme

N.I.M wrote: »

Thought they were with the health lottery people.

|Looking at the fee and the report I wouldn't be surprised if this was a competitor paying for this.

N.I.M

Big_Graeme wrote: »

|Looking at the fee and the report I wouldn't be surprised if this was a competitor paying for this.

Having not seen it I don't know BUT I do know the compeditor is/was an RA client

Big_Graeme

Looks like field agent are sniffing around a TNS client, or is this a supplier wanting data?

whitelabel

N.I.M wrote: »

Thought they were with the health lottery people.

they still are if the same one
i can see them on health lottery people but none on MF

Workie_Ticket

Chopsie&Chelvis wrote: »

I can't believe the fee for the German supermarket on MF! Appalling. Actually, sorry - it's MF, I can believe it ....

Lower fee than city centre RA electrical with 2x reimbursement of RA electrical. At least RA cheap supermarket offer a decent reimbursement. I don't like reimbursement only, but RA offer double what MF are offering.

Workie_Ticket

Who are the health lottery people?

pheonixrising21

weeg wrote: »

Working out your profit/loss
There have been lots of people on the old MSing threads asking how to work out their taxable income. Below is a little example of how to do this for each job, with some suggestions of what you could include for each job you do:

Income: (includes all fees and reimbursements): £30.00
Expenses:
Job specific costs (anything you had to pay out as part of the job) (£20.00)
10 miles @ 45p (HMRC’s agreed rate per mile) (£ 4.50)
12 pages printed @ 6p (reasonable cost of printing a page) (£ 0.72)
Profit (income less expenses) £ 4.78

I have to admit I am still a little confused by the tax issue....
In the above example, I assume tax is only paid on the profit i.e £4.78 x 20% (for me anyway) = 96p?

What if the job in question was a meal/drink in a pub or a purchase in a shop (jumper for example), don't you pay tax on the cost of the jumper/meal? I've been told in the past that you do, but from the example above you wouldn't?

Also, what if the job has no fee, just a reimbursement e.g up to £15 to buy something from a shop. Let's say Ispend £12 on a pair of shorts, the shop was a 5 mile round trip away and there were 5 pages to print...

Fee + Reimburesement = £0 + £12
Expenses = £12
Mileage = £2.25
Printing = £0.30

Profit = £12-£14.55 = -£2.55
Tax = -£0.51 (i.e. tax bill reduces)

OR

Profit = £12-£2.55 = £9.45
Tax = £1.89

I've calculated what I think my tax bill would be with both methods and obviously there is a significant difference in the two numbers. Obviously, the taxman will calculate the right figures based on the numbers I put on the forms, so I guess what I am asking is do I submit the cost of a meal/purchase which I get reimbursed for as both an income and an expense or just an income?

whitelabel

Workie_Ticket wrote: »

Who are the lottery people?

ims

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mimi1234

Not gonna alert as someone just did it the other day, but pizzas have gone on RE/MF in Yorkshire.

Has anyone done a UKIMS visit without being all super professional looking? Come on, I'm doing a european shop where folk where sports wear. I will look so out of place!

whitelabel

mimi1234 wrote: »

Not gonna alert as someone just did it the other day, but pizzas have gone on RE/MF in Yorkshire.

Has anyone done a UKIMS visit without being all super professional looking? Come on, I'm doing a european shop where folk where sports wear. I will look so out of place!

mystery visit to european shop ?
wear what you want

ive done lottery visits in black combats, and black polo with black toe protector trainers

bank visit, dress smart

slapper counting visits, dress smart