[BNM] Solicitors or folk that can draw up contracts

[Remy Sharp]

Hi all,

I need to draw up some fairly standard contracts that will be repeatedly used (for training and client work) and wondered if anyone can recommend a solicitor they've used (and works well).

Cheers,

- Remy

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[Nick Witcher]

Chris Boakes at Acumen Business Law in Hove, top bloke & very reasonable
rates. :)

http://acumenbusinesslaw.co.uk/

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Acumen - http://acumenbusinesslaw.co.uk/

Chris Boakes +1

Jim

[Joe Aliferis]

Freelancers out there with cars:

When you is freelance and sometimes driving around for work purposes in
your family car, can you claim any part of the cost of the car (and its
upkeep) against your earnings in your self assessment ?

forget petrol, I know thats allowable

I mean the cost of purchasing the car and keeping it running over the year

help pls

Joe

[Hazlitt Eastman]

Hi Joe,

You'll need to check but I think the allowable mileage rate before incurring benefit in kind tax is 45ppm for a car with up to a 2Ltr engine.
Part of the amount is fuel and the other is wear and tear. Again check HMRC website but I think it is about 1/3 to 2/3.

Some one else will probably know more.

Hazlitt

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[Simon Early]

the simplest way is to claim mileage (45p per mile as I recall? - check the
rules!). THis includes fuel. You can only claim for travel "necessary for
work", not to and from your "normal" place of work either.

Otherwise, you'll be involve in capital cost of the car, depreciation,
resale and any possible tax/VAT issues.

I once had a VAT inspection and she was more proctologist than accountant.
Not good.
best to check, but it's on the gov website.
s/.

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[Nick Witcher]

As others have said, you've got two options.

1) Claim mileage at the end of the tax year at rate set by government, no
receipts of proof of journey needed, but needs to be reasonable i.e. not
20,000 miles

2) Claim back VAT from your petrol receipts, and you'll need to keep clear
records for possible inspection.

Option 1 is best I think

On 12 January 2012 18:06, Joe Aliferis <joeal...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[Joe Aliferis]

Thanks all

Looks like mileage is the way to go....

hmmmm, how many 'work' miles did I do last year ?

not including driving to /from work ?! whats that about ?

joe

[Ali]

>Looks like mileage is the way to go....
>
>hmmmm, how many 'work' miles did I do last year ?

Whilst mileage is definitely the more precise route, if you haven't got
records of mileage
then you could consider this way, when I had the services of an accountant
he simply asked

- how much does your car cost to run per year (i.e. insurance, mot,
servicing, fuel)? and
- what percentage of the car's use is for work purposes?

hth

Ali

[Joe Aliferis]

well, including Fuel and insurance, I guess it costs about 2500 a year
to run

fuel is about 1200, I estimate

% for work? I'd say 10%

Joe

[Joe Aliferis]

anyone got o2 network problems ?

I cant send sms messages or make a call

Joe

[Nick Witcher]

I'm on o2 & no problems to report.

-N

[Joe Aliferis]

just found their service status page online

for my current BN3 postcode, a mast is not working !

:-(

> I'm on o2& no problems to report.

[Max Williams]

I'm on middle street and have zero bars but that's fairly typical so it's
hard to tell if something's wrong.

[Jonathan Norris]

Full signal and no problems by Hove station.

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[Huw Selley]

I'm also on Middle St, have full signal and have just got off a call :)

[Gillian Pearce]

Can't send texts. I'm near First Ave.

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[Joe Aliferis]

Thats where I was earlier when I had the problem

[Antony Koch]

Ah this explains it. I live on First Avenue and had nothing all weekend.

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