Accountants (Brooksons) says I'm outside IR35.. is that just sales talk?

[malvolio]

More like 0.6%. And not everybody here is on £430/day.

The average day rate is seemingly around £410 - blame all those City types I guess - and a three month is actually 13 x 5 day weeks. Less than 1% off the top to avoid IR35 doesn't seem like too much to me. Put your business head on rather than the Scrooge one most people seem to use and it's quite a good return in fact.

[BoredBloke]

Well I'm still well below average then at £300

[malvolio]

Well I'm still well below average then at £300

That's still £19.5k for three months, or £78k for a year though... Very roughly £11k a year extra tax if you wind up inside IR35. Surely that's worth a day's net income?

[Lewis]

If you want to save some money join the QDOS freelance club for about £40 (or take out one of their other IR35 products) and you get three contract reviews a year for free. They even did mine the same day.

[Fred Bloggs]

It's really very simple, Brooksons are expensive for what they do and they have baggage no matter how you dress it up. There are specialist accountancy practises without the ex-MSC baggage for a lot less every month and you can pay QDOS for their TLC35 insurance. Job done.