Client booking and paying for travel.

[northernladuk]

Historically I have booked and paid for all my own travel and invoiced it back. Happy days.

Client now wants us to go through them to book flights and hotels and they pay for them so just want to be absolutely clear how this affects me.

Lets forget the issues around it better me being in charge of my own plans/cockups..

I believe that the client purchasing these makes no difference to IR35. They are providing tools to do my work just as they do a laptop for example. This is not classed as expense as there is no transaction between me and the client.

You would assume then this change of arrangement will not affect my IR35?

Do people believe that it goes from black and white to grey and I would be better attempting to neogtiate away from this (which could be difficult) or its totally fine go for it?

Any thoughts from my esteemed and respected CUK'ers would be much appreciated. MF and Wanderer can chip in if they want as well

[SueEllen]

Just read a nice article else where on the web. You are fine it but depends on how you do it. Client does it all for you fine. Client or Agency expects you do to it like one of the company's employees not fine.

[Dearnla]

Just read a nice article else where on the web. You are fine it but depends on how you do it. Client does it all for you fine. Client or Agency expects you do to it like one of the company's employees not fine.

So that's clear then.

[SueEllen]

So that's clear then.

It's a competitor to this site so you have to use google.

It basically said you are fine claiming it from the client but if you are using expense sheets then you shouldn't do it the same way their employees do it. And you shouldn't claim hardware expenses or training from the client.