Hello Terpe,
It seems that I am getting different views with regard to monthly spending in Central London, I am thinking of taking advantage of my benefit to reimburse my rent, meals and transpo by taking the best that I can have as my living allowance is not fixed instead it is in actuals. So I am looking at spending only for my personal shopping and clubbin. Though I am a Filipino so I am used to stretch my budget. On the other hand, I believe I should talk to my boss about my package and ask for a little bit more.
Yeah, I am totally clear with the 40% tax but there are non taxable stuff such as contributions which somehow save me a couple of pounds.
For the weighting salary, it will be added on top of my base salary but I am not looking into it as I am doing my budget on a conservative basis for me to move those extra income directly to my savings.
For the points, I do not know if I can help you because I am not really familiar with the application, I just provided all documents that our legal has asked.
Since he has a better compensation package than me then he should get a Visa easily. As my company was able to manage it with ease, I bet his company is far better than mine.