Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-23 Thread James Laver
On 22 Aug 2009, at 23:04, s...@lightcapturepaper.co.uk wrote: Tax man you need to keep paperwork for up to 7 years. ~ S My business paperwork, they ask me to keep for 6 years. I think that's because that's the liability cap (you can't try someone for an offence more than 6 years ago, so

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:18, James Laver wrote: On 22 Aug 2009, at 23:04, s...@lightcapturepaper.co.uk wrote: Tax man you need to keep paperwork for up to 7 years. ~ S My business paperwork, they ask me to keep for 6 years. I think that's because that's the liability cap (you can't try

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-23 Thread James Laver
On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:54, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Prove you haven't dicked with a digital copy. That's the point, I have the original paper copy neatly filed where *I* don't have to touch it. For my own reference, I can use the digital copies but the taxman can still have his papers.

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 23, 2009, at 16:54, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Prove you haven't dicked with a digital copy. (Knowing this is London.pm): In the US the taxman actually specifically allows reasonable digital copies. It's sorta vague what a proper copy is; I'm guessing so if it's a terrible scan that

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-23 Thread muppet
On Aug 23, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: This is the future; we were supposed to be done with paper already. Also, jetpack! Paper is the blood of bureaucracy. Paper will never go away so long as there are managers. -- Santa ate all the cookies! -- Zella's first,

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-22 Thread Jacqui Caren
Peter Corlett wrote: On 21 Aug 2009, at 17:27, James Laver wrote: My flat is a tip, my desk is atrocious and my crate of paperwork (unsorted of course) is getting out of control. The shredder is your friend. Usually about 50-70% of any pile of paperwork that's been ignored for a while is

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-22 Thread ses
Tax man you need to keep paperwork for up to 7 years. ~ S --Original Message-- From: Jacqui Caren Sender: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers ReplyTo: London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers Subject: Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management Sent: 22 Aug 2009 21:35

Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-21 Thread James Laver
My flat is a tip, my desk is atrocious and my crate of paperwork (unsorted of course) is getting out of control. I want to fix it because I can't go on like this, does anyone have any experience in sorting it all out? What I currently have in mind is a document store where I scan something, and

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM, James Laverjames.la...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone else have experience of doing something like this, have suggestions on a better way of doing it, etc.? Not sure how much this helps, if at all, but this sounded interesting to me, and seems to address at

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-21 Thread Anthony Fisher
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On 21 Aug 2009, at 17:27, James Laver wrote: My flat is a tip, my desk is atrocious and my crate of paperwork (unsorted of course) is getting out of control. Important tip: get a system in-place and working for new incoming stuff before you try to deal