Is going limited worth it if you are inside IR35?

[Chods]

Accountants giving IR35 advice always worries me. I don't ask QDOS accounting questions.

The advice was from an IR35 specialist, not accountant. They happen to work for an accountancy that specialises in this sort of work.

[original PM]

The advice was from an IR35 specialist, not accountant. They happen to work for an accountancy that specialises in this sort of work.

sounds like they are probably in the wrong job then!

[Chods]

sounds like they are probably in the wrong job then!

Maybe you should ask a proffesional and see what they say.

I once sent the same contract to 3 different contract review specialists to see what happened. Not one of them picked the same clauses. Completely different

Abbey Tax, Meades and QDos for the record.

This just shows how grey the area is.

[northernladuk]

The advice was from an IR35 specialist, not accountant. They happen to work for an accountancy that specialises in this sort of work.

How about actually trying to understand IR35 rather than take the word of someone else then? You don't have to know it to the level the specialists do but you can get a pretty good idea of it reading about it on here and other sites. Think like a business rather than someone trying to get around a couple of rules and it gets a lot easier.

[northernladuk]

Maybe you should ask a proffesional and see what they say.

I once sent the same contract to 3 different contract review specialists to see what happened. Not one of them picked the same clauses. Completely different

Abbey Tax, Meades and QDos for the record.

This just shows how grey the area is.

For some reason I can't believe this....

[Chods]

How about actually trying to understand IR35 rather than take the word of someone else then? You don't have to know it to the level the specialists do but you can get a pretty good idea of it reading about it on here and other sites. Think like a business rather than someone trying to get around a couple of rules and it gets a lot easier.

I just wanted to see how opinions differ, and they do differ wildly from proffesional legal people. I think you would be foolish to make your own opinion without expert advice. The tiniest change of wording make a difference.

[Chods]

For some reason I can't believe this....

Speak to people and ask them on in their opinion, how does forced leave or furlough effect your status in regard to IR35 and see what they say. Ive done this. Its upto you what you believe.

[northernladuk]

Speak to people and ask them on in their opinion, how does forced leave or furlough effect your status in regard to IR35 and see what they say. Ive done this. Its upto you what you believe.

See, you fail again.. Forced leave???? I think a fundamental change in your thinking is required.

[Chods]

See, you fail again.. Forced leave???? I think a fundamental change in your thinking is required.

Sounds like your inside mate. Sorry. If your counting on those factors your open.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Speak to people and ask them on in their opinion, how does forced leave or furlough effect your status in regard to IR35 and see what they say. Ive done this. Its upto you what you believe.

You have missed the point Chods and you have missed it so spectacularly well that I am beginning to wonder if you may be a contractor of the sock variety. If not - you are thinking like a permanent member of staff not like someone in business on their own account; if there is no mutuality of obligation in the relationship that you have with the client then that is a positive IR35 indicator - this is not enforced leave it is being told that they have no work for you.