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Guest's review of Crystal Umbrella, www.crystalumbrella.com

“Avoid, avoid, avoid!”

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written by on 19/12/2011

Crystal Umbrella promise much. However, when you sign on, they dont explain all the deductions they make and this omission has cost me in the region of £5K from them taking employers national insurance on a monthly basis.
The upshot is that there is an 'internal investigation' which I am still to hear the update from and I very much doubt they are going to do anything to help me or reimburse me.
An underhand company with no customer service!

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Guest's Comment

Written on: 20/01/2012

This comment is ridiculous and obviously false.. of course they deduct NIC's as do all employers! Who do think is going to pay this, the tax fairies!! get real..

Your obviously not bright enough to be a contractor "Guest"

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Bobrulestheworld's Comment

Written on: 20/01/2012

Nice comment!

Anybody with any common sense would be expected to be informed of all deductions prior to signing a contract which is precisely my point.

Perhaps you are the one with the intelligence problems!

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Wicked1978's Comment

Written on: 20/01/2012

All employers deduct Employers NI, or are you forgetting they are your employer?

All Umbrella's in the UK do exactly the same, why do you think agencies uplift your pay when you become a contractor, trust me its not out of the goodness of the hearts, it to fund / part fund NIC... I would read up on it before commenting in future!

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