Letter to my MP, and the response.....

[80sContractor]

thanks...

No your opinion means the square root of sod all to your MP and even less to the Treasury and HMRC.

I'm not shouting at you, I'm pointing out that you are getting wound up over something completely predictable as if it was something new.
Here's news for you, unless you have a lot of influence and what you want fits their existing agenda (or pushes a public outrage button like a toddlers corpse on a beach) then you get the metaphorical equivalent of "Yes dear". It has always been this way and it's never going to change while the current "democratic" system exists unchanged here.
If you and I and every registered elector in this country got to vote on every issue by discrete vote then it would be different, but that's not practical for countless reasons, not the least being that 90%+ of the voting population are too disinterested or stupid to make a rational decision.

I'm not wound up, rather chilled actually, bit of a quiet afternoon that you are helping drift by, time for lunch actually.

[TykeMerc]

I'm not wound up, rather chilled actually, bit of a quiet afternoon that you are helping drift by, time for lunch actually.

Ah, the old "wanders off whistling nonchalantly" technique, not seen that employed in a few weeks.

[80sContractor]

no, still here

Ah, the old "wanders off whistling nonchalantly" technique, not seen that employed in a few weeks.

you're just not that interesting

[TykeMerc]

you're just not that interesting

Coincidentally, that's pretty much what your MP appears to have said to you.

[NotAllThere]

Could you post what you sent to your mp?

I have a disinterest in the matter since I've no intention in working in the UK ever again.

But yet NAT say's being in one long contract for oh, say 9 years, with the same client doesnt make you part and parcel of the client's organisation and, its 'how you work that counts.'

Sadly, I think most of what NATS can be taken with a pinch of salt with regard to UK circumstances.

I may live and work in the UK, but its quite possible in this day and age to keep up with what's going on in blighty and to think analytically and critically about it.

Politicians are simple souls. They're also kept busy. If you want to communicate with them, keep your sentences short and to the point. Perhaps you'd care how my opinion on this is invalidated by my work and life situation.

Anyway - no more please stay on topic.

[BrilloPad]

Were you really expecting anything different?

[SantaClaus]

Good luck if you think we live in a democracy. Even better luck if you think you'll get a sensible reply from David Gauke.

That letter from Gauke more or less translates to "I intend to shaft all contractors".

[NotAllThere]

..., not the least being that 90%+ of the voting population are too disuninterested or stupid to make a rational decision.

Disinterest is impartial interest, not lack of interest.

[Fandango]

Well just to add to the collection of BS responses from Gauke here's mine

[MPwannadecentincome]

I have only just seen this and I don't get point being made at all around the figures. Can you explain the relevance of NI being lower in one or tax lower in the other when all Daily Mail reader cares about is total deductions?

The total deductions are significantly lower under non IR35 by your own figures by approx £10,000 without taking into account taxes paid on dividends which would reduce the gap especially after April 2016.

BTW I don't get how you calculated the figures for "IR35" did you take 5% allowance for expenses into account? Also I don't get how you can say under IR35 the salary is just £10,000?

If the limited company invoices £100,000 in a year

IR35 non IR35
Salary £10,000 £10,000
Employer NI £ 10,275 £ 0
Employee NI £ 4,959 £ 232
Corporation Tax £ 0 £18,000
Income Tax £23,185 £10,713

Total Tax £23,185 £28,713
Total NI £15,234 £ 232