I got a last minute phone call today. I’ll be going to Oxford, Leeds festival and Reading festival with The Last Shadow Puppets. Paris might appear there somewhere too. Sweet!
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I have now discussed this invoice with xyz and have been asked to pay you for the first three days, making a total of £xyz. Your cheque has gone out first class in last night’s post. The dispute had slightly delayed processing.
When you dispute an invoice, you’re supposed to actually contact the person who you’re disputing the invoice with. Seeing as that’s not that case and I don’t particularly like you or your company, I’m going to sting you for every penny you owe me.
I’ve spent the last six days in Windsor at the Guards Polo Club putting in lighting for the Rock the Polo event hosted by Chinawhites. It’s generally been a fun few days but the actual event was somewhat stuck up.
People with hideous amounts of money seem to have no shame and do as they please. We saw two burnt out cars on the way back in yesterday morning and on the way home on Sunday night there were plenty of fights and people stealing things.
Just goes to show, money doesn’t buy you dignity, respect or class.
I was at Tate Modern last night, working on a corporate job with a little bit of a twist!
The job was for Nissan and was essentially a pre motor show do for various industry related bods. The usual corporate really, apart from the headline act was Beardyman. Excellent!
We got to see the new Nissan GTR in the flesh, which was good. Unfortunately they couldn’t bring it into the main turbine hall as the person driving the car turned the engine on and the venue people realised it had petrol in it. Apparently that’s a fire risk.
I managed to capture some of beardymans performance for those wishing to see. He was very very good. I last saw him when he opened Groove Armada at Brixton Academy last year.
For those that don’t know, Beardyman is the UK beatboxing champion.
There’s only one thing worse than working for a toss piece. And that’s working for a toss piece who doesn’t pay you on time. I have very rigid rules when it comes to payment, like most self-employed people. I expect payment within thirty days, which I feel is a reasonable time scale.
I got told about a great website some while back, payontime.co.uk. It details your legal rights to charge interest on late payments. It has a great downloadable PDF, which outlines how you should format invoices and approach charging people.
My invoices have for some time included some text in the footer telling people I will charge interest for late payments. This is predominantly used as a deterrent, and it normally works wonders. Here’s the text in full.
I understand and will exercise my statutory right to interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998. Invoices not paid within the credit terms stated above will incur interest.
Unfortunately some people think the text is there just for show and that it won’t be acted upon. If you use this kind of text in your invoices you need to be willing to follow it up. I have the next step planned if I still don’t receive any payment; A CCJ, which they most definitely won’t want to have to their name.
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