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    Agency Staff

    Thank you for your replies. The chap has been sending threatening texts to our other engineers and to us. He has issued various threats. I really don't want to take him on again with that kind of attitude. To be fair, his job wasn't very taxing or complicated, he had free transport and...
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    Agency Staff

    We have been using an agency employee for the last 14 months. We submit a time sheet each week, the agency invoices us monthly and he is paid weekly by the agency. Last week he was not paid by the agency as the time sheet had not been sent to us. We submitted his hours via email. He failed...
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    Self Assessment for Company Directors

    I have a nice little conundrum here for those who would pit their wits against petty beaurocracy. Although HMRC state that company directors must fill in a tax SA, according to TMA 1970, there is no such specific requirement: "There is no requirement to notify chargeability where there is no...
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    Just to let everyone who contributed thoughts and solutions to this issue, the liquidators decided not to contact me again. They have now concluded their business and closed the case. Thankfully it is out of statute now anyway so further claims would be invalid. Thank you for all your help. :)
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    Thank you Alan. The frustrating thing is, I have already instructed a solicitor, exchanged correspondence, solicitors' letters and followed all the necessary and proper legal paths on this matter, all the time regularly (in the final para of each letter) being threatened with legal proceedings...
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    Thank you to all for your thoughts and suggestions. Kevin 'you would have seen all distributable reserves'. I saw nothing! The directors didn't hold any meetings for shareholders until they wound the company up and that meeting certainly didn't involve sharing the company accounts. Their...
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    Please use English!

    I see commas too...but not enough in the right places. I wonder how her dog tasted...
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    EU Nutjobs - Thankfully I will not be running a business by 2050

    Hmmm...just remind me, exactly what benefits do we derive from being part of the EU? I have a pen and postage stamp ready to write down the answers...
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    Royal wedding - are you giving the day off?

    I suspect - in my rather cynical way - that if you don't give staff the day off, you will have quite a high number of them 'off sick' that day...
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    CIS Tax and the way it is administrated

    Does anyone have any thoughts about CIS Tax and the manner in which HMRC is administrating returns, appeals etc? The reason I ask is because (according to today's BBC Radio 4 Money Box) the Treasury website is inviting small businesses to post their thoughts about Treasury measures and why we...
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    This was a very small company. There were no AGM's. The directors were a man and wife team. The shareholders numbered six at most. The directors decided to pay 'dividends' in lieu of salary, without issuing any dividend certificates. They did not inform the recipients that was what they were...
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    Payment - meaning of the term 'to date'

    I'm with you here. If you submit an invoice dated 31st Jan (say) for the work done up to that date, then that is what you are paid for. Your client is taking the option of paying you seven days from the date of your invoice - pretty normal practice. If your colleague thinks you should be paid...
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    Thank you. This makes interesting reading but I was not a director nor had anything do do with the day to day running of the company nor its finances so I don't believe the same rules apply...I could be wrong.
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    Debt Collection

    Sorry folk - two versions of my suggestion haved appeared - technical error as the first one didn't show up initially. Am finding everyone else's input very useful as alternative to my method. Thanks all.
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    Legal dividend in dispute

    Sorry folk - again - due to technical error - again - this is repeat of post entitled 'repayment of illegal dividend to non-director shareholder' but all views most gratefully received!
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