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    Court case: can we demand a copy of defendant's passport?

    If you hold a UK passport (or other “3rd country” passport) and enter and leave the EU it will be stamped when you enter the Schengen region, and then again when you leave the Schengen region. This has been (for UK passport holders) since 1st Jan ‘21, when our freedom of movement within the Eu...
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    Changed mind after signing employment contract

    Does it also work the other way round? Ie, Let’s say I am offered a job today (20th Aug) to start on 1st Sep. Job has one month notice period (ie, if I wanted to quit on 1st Jan, I’d need to give notice on 1st Dec) For some reason, company changes it mind and withdraws job offer on, say 25th...
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    [Seeking Advice] I've Built a Web App to Help Small Businesses Fill Empty Appointments – Which Niches Need This Most?

    MOTs. My car goes in for its MOT today, my daughter’s goes in tomorrow. I booked them both nearly two months ago. Been going to the same garage for years, interestingly this year, when I phoned to book the appointments, they rather apologetically said I now had to pay up front. Not a...
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    UK State Pension Contributions Required

    Without double checking your sums, you are pretty much correct. However, you may need to act swiftly. Normally you can only “buy back” missed years up to six years ago, but there is currently an opportunity buy back missing years up to 2006, but this window closes on 5th April, after which you...
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    Is there an order for deductions? Pension, Tax, NI, etc.

    I believe, but I’m not 100% sure , I think they both (income tax & NI) come off the same number/at the same time. Ie you would take 20% off the £1900 for tax, and 10% off the £1900 for NI (this assumes you are paying into your pension via salary sacrifice, else you would take the 10% for NI off...
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    Is there an order for deductions? Pension, Tax, NI, etc.

    Pension contributions are tax free - ie you pay in your pension contributions before tax (and in some instances) National Insurance. This is what makes them such a good investment In your example, from £2000 earned, 5% - ie £100 - is paid into your pension, so your taxable income is now...
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    Pension Draw Down - Losing Tax Benefit On Remaining Pension

    Watch, or get your friend to watch, last night’s (28/1/25) Martin Lewis show on ITV. It was all about pensions, was very clear, will probably answer a number of your questions, and if not, it will at least give you a clearer overview of what you can do with your pension, and the tax...
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    Paying staff

    Many years ago, when I was a (very) young man in the RAF we used to get paid a daily rate, monthly in arrears, so, for example, on 31st Jan you would receive x31 your daily rate. At the end of September you’d get x30 your daily rate. Made things simple for when your pay changed due to, say...
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    Best UK Hosting Company?

    As promised, a quick update. Signed up for HostingUK on Monday afternoon, Monday evening filled out the form for their free web migration service. Early Tuesday, I was contacted by their support - I would get one free migration, they would migrate my other two sites for £60 each. I asked them...
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    Best UK Hosting Company?

    Well let’s see how this goes …. Because I trust him, I’ve taken @fisicx recommendation and this very afternoon bought hosting from Hosting UK to host my three sites (pretty much just hobby sites, all Wordpress based) currently with 123, having been with TSO host before the take over, and...
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    Ice Weight Removed During Icemelt

    Two quick thoughts on an ironically frosty morning: The total mass will not change (but may be redistributed) as the melted ice becomes liquid water it still has the same mass Is there any evidence of the reverse (build up of mass on area) having an effect? Major conurbations did not always...
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    What would you choose as your new job title if you were in my shoes?

    Digital content director Digital content lead Head of DC. (DC = Digital content) MC C (Master, Content Creator)
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    Web site not always showing

    Moving forward, I'm more than happy to move away from TSOHost (who I think are now selling to 123?) I ended up with them having initially been hosted by Vidahost - having been recommended them on the forum, and their owner (Dom?) was a member on this forum. I think I have suffered from, as...
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    Web site not always showing

    Thanks to all for your continued help and suggestions. Yesterday, I changed the nameservers of my IONOS account (where the domain name is registered) to the nameservers on my TSOHost account (ns37.domaincontrol.com and ns38.domaincontrol.com) These are the same nameservers that my other two...
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    Web site not always showing

    Thanks to all for your continued help, support, advice and patience. I won't touch anything for 24 hours or so, and see how things pan out ....
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