Re: FN-FORUM: Prosperity4

date posted 2nd October 2006 10:01


hello
many thanks for your email. I'm sorry to hear you've had such a lot
of hassle from them, and also very grateful that you've helped me
avoid such an expensive mistake.
Thanks again and best wishes,
Malc

On 2 Oct 2006, at 09:23, Simon Dingley wrote:

>
> Malcolm Izatt wrote:
>
>> I am new to freelancing and wondered if anyone had used the tax
>> management company Prosperity4?
>> Any advice for a new freelancer looking for the best accountant/
>> money-saving management company would be much appreciated!
>
> The best advice I can offer you is to avoid them like the plague.
> This is not only talking from personal experience but others who
> have also had a similar experiences.
>
> +-Prosperity-4.html>
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> As soon as you sign up the communication almost stops. From memory
> they were skimming 6% off of every invoice plus another chunk which
> they put in a 'held' account and I struggled to get back and
> despite the fact that it was my money it took 2 months and the
> cancellation of my contract to get it.
>
> Practically every email I have had from them began with an apology
> - "sorry for not coming back to you", "sorry for not processing
> this that and the other", "sorry mr/mrs/miss x was out of the
> office or sick or on holiday or most recently 'had a death in the
> family'", "sorry that's not my department" etc etc. I got
> absolutely sick of it and it was a real upward struggle to get my
> money back from them wasting a huge amount of my time and therefore
> money having to chase them down all of the time.
>
> They sent an invoice to one of my clients that wasn't even for them
> but for some other random company that another Prosperity4
> contractor had done work for which was embarrassing for me and made
> me look stupid in front of my client.
>
> It took them 2 months from my initial request to leave before i
> finally got my P45. They lost 2 copies of my P45 in the post
> although I don't believe they were ever sent.
>
> I could go on and on but they have already wasted far too much of
> my time and money in the past. The money you pay them would be
> better invested in accountant and actually cost less in the long
> run and as I have now discovered - bookkeeping is really not that
> complicated for what I do.
>
> I am also disappointed that this freelancers list promotes such a
> service to other poor and unsuspecting freelancers as my case is
> not an isolated incident with this company which Google will reveal.
>
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>
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