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    dodgy expenses

    no not MPs, fruit pickers


    BBC News - 'Abusive tax avoidance' affects temporary workers

    paying artificially high expenses to avoid NI.

    must have saved them all of 50p.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    The answer is that the lion's share of any tax saving is often taken by the agency and any company to which it subcontracts to manage its payroll - sometimes known as an "umbrella" company.

    All those peanuts they're scamming off the low paid add up to tidy profit.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #3
      Is this a case of HMRC picking low hanging fruit....

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        #4
        Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
        The answer is that the lion's share of any tax saving is often taken by the agency and any company to which it subcontracts to manage its payroll - sometimes known as an "umbrella" company.

        All those peanuts they're scamming off the low paid add up to tidy profit.
        And yet Umbrella companies still manage to go "bump" - funny that, init?

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