Contract Review & Insurance against IR35

[pisces]

Depends how much you fancy giving 20% of your gross back as tax. IR35 investigations can roll back 6 years, so it might be a good idea to treat it with respect from Day 1.

Incidentally, the 1400-and-odd to 3 ratio just changed: it's now 1487:4 since Accountax just lost one at the Specials. No details as yet, but basically the client told the Special Commisioners something different to what he told the contractor four years earlier...

Surely then the client is at fault here, if this is what lost the case?

[Old Greg]

Surely then the client is at fault here, if this is what lost the case?

I think fault and liability are different things, here (who cares who's at fault if you end up having to pay the lot.)

[Lewis]

Anyone know who the client is? I want to be sure I stay well clear!

[pisces]

I think fault and liability are different things, here (who cares who's at fault if you end up having to pay the lot.)

I and every other Contractor should. I would be absolutely livid if I had done all my homework, got everything sorted, was deemed outside IR35 and then taken to court and had my client change tack which then led me to being thousands of pounds in debt.

[Old Greg]

I and every other Contractor should. I would be absolutely livid if I had done all my homework, got everything sorted, was deemed outside IR35 and then taken to court and had my client change tack which then led me to being thousands of pounds in debt.

Fair enough - didn't explain my point properly. I'd be pretty pqssed off too, but I could imagine if this happened with my current gig, the person turning up in 3 years time would be someone who'd never met me, never worked on the project andnever talked to anyone who'd worked on the project - and I might be stuffed.