16th October 2008, 02:11 PM
How much have you talked to the taxman/been to see them. As a selfemployed person I have got used to talking to them a lot and going to see them. How was the accommodation paid for? Does it say on your payslip accommodation allowance? Have you any literature which says Free accommodation or accommodation paid for on it? Have you pointed out to the taxman that you have a permanent residence elsewhere? How has the taxman treated the charity for national insurance contributions that should have been made on your so-called pay? It sounds to me that theres lots to argue. You could be slicing your own throat but the taxman works off precedent and the fact that you have evidence of payments made in previous years I would have thought is pertinent, going back seven years even. May be BAJR should blow this subject right up and start a public gathering of examples of this practise from elsewhere
There is another angle to this subject that should concern archaeologists:
There is another angle to this subject that should concern archaeologists:
Quote:quote: The site was not in an area where there are a lot of archaeologists, and accommodation was essentialThe area was dense enough to have a trust or rather a management with offices there. Have you looked at their accounts? Theres money coming in for the management to exist. It might be purely commercial but I suspect that you will find that there might be service agreements with the local councils and pension arrangements. The problem with managements is that they age and their salaries increment and so less trickles down the greasy pole and before you know it its cheaper to find people from further afield who for reasons of their own are prepared to undertake a short term rip-off rather than the management pay a descent local permanent rate.