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Another Friday has come around again, only 12 days until Christmas, it's all moving pretty quickly now. On that theme, Eileen the customer services manager has asked me to mention that with Christmas coming up it would probably be a good idea to check the dates your agency or company will be paying on, our payment days can be found here, or in with your payslip arriving tomorrow.

Regardless of which day your agency is paying, a lot of you will have built up holiday pay that you can choose to take (and the sooner you inform us you're taking it the better). As I've said before with Easter falling after the new financial year in April, Christmas is probably the most convenient and "tax efficient" (I hate that term) time to take it (unless you're planning on taking a holiday in the early part of next year).

All holiday pay has to be taken before the end of the tax year, otherwise it will be lost. I am going to keep reminding you.

In another bout of mailing decadence we received yet more post from a government department that will remain unnamed, they decided that it would now be a great time to send us 11 boxes of more useless post, sent recorded delivery this time, to really splash out. That came to around three to four thousand items, at least it wasn't HMRC, they are getting better.

That's it for another week, have a great weekend, and look after yourselves.

Hugo
12/12/2008