Separate contract for same company

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Dear All

Can anyone advise on the following please?

I am currently in contract outside IR35 for a project which completes end of February and will have been 9 months work which will naturally end when the project completes. The organisation has approached me to carry out a separate piece of work, providing a set of different services on a completely different business proposition, and would like me to start at the end of the current contract. For IR35, is it OK to have a new contract which describes the completely new supply beginning on the date after I finish the last, or is it best to run them parallel, or does it not matter as long as the 2 pieces of work are 2 completely different services?

All advice gratefully accepted and many thanks in advance.

[WordIsBond]

Why would it matter if they run concurrently or consecutively? As long as the scope is clear on each, and the working practices are fine, it shouldn't matter. It shouldn't even matter if the second project is a follow-on from the first, or an extension.

[northernladuk]

You need to understand IR35 not treat it as a tick box exercise. You are business now so should be thinking like one.

Kudos for using advise properly though

[jamesbrown]

Dear All

Can anyone advise on the following please?

I am currently in contract outside IR35 for a project which completes end of February and will have been 9 months work which will naturally end when the project completes. The organisation has approached me to carry out a separate piece of work, providing a set of different services on a completely different business proposition, and would like me to start at the end of the current contract. For IR35, is it OK to have a new contract which describes the completely new supply beginning on the date after I finish the last, or is it best to run them parallel, or does it not matter as long as the 2 pieces of work are 2 completely different services?

All advice gratefully accepted and many thanks in advance.

The situation you've described is, in itself, IR35 neutral or, rather, of no help in commenting on the IR35 status of either contract, so get the contract and working practices reviewed, as usual. If you'd been rolled onto a different project without any prior agreement or change in contract or didn't have a discrete project or a set of deliverables, that would be different. Note that having an extension on the same project is also IR35 neutral, unless it turns into an indefinite, rolling, contract.

[northernladuk]

Some decent reading for the OP...

IR35 Legisation - advice and guides for UK contractors

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Thanks for all the responses, much appreciated