Will contract rates increase to pass dividend tax increase to clients?

[northernladuk]

No, I'm just starting out and can't be bothered with the Ltd baggage or avoiding/thinking about IR35.
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If you can't cut it then stop posting in the prof forums then.

[seanraaron]

Nope, I guess not.
Are you touting for business as an umbrella provider?

No, I'm just starting out and can't be bothered with the Ltd baggage or avoiding/thinking about IR35.

If I was actually in business for myself I don't think I'd be running an umbrella company.

[flamel]

..... Guess that means I'm not a real contractor....

Nope, I guess not.
Are you touting for business as an umbrella provider?

[jamesbrown]

I'd happy work as self-employed schedule D. The slight problem is that no client or agency will accept me working that way, which somewhat limits my earning possibility.

Watch this space

[TheFaQQer]

I have to say if I had to get an ltd and an accountant and generate invoices there's no way I'd contract (assuming I had a choice).

And that's a perfectly valid view to have - some companies need employees, and that's what you are.

But there's a difference between someone who falls into an umbrella because their previous company didn't want them any more and thinks they are a contractor, and someone who operates a limited company and works via that mechanism.

I'd happy work as self-employed schedule D. The slight problem is that no client or agency will accept me working that way, which somewhat limits my earning possibility.

[seanraaron]

That is the most ill informed moronic post I think I have ever seen on these forums.

Hahahaha, you're good man!

[northernladuk]

I have to say if I had to get an ltd and an accountant and generate invoices there's no way I'd contract (assuming I had a choice). Guess that means I'm not a real contractor, even if I end up doing this for the next twenty years...

That is the most ill informed moronic post I think I have ever seen on these forums.

[seanraaron]

If HMRC want to give me sick pay, paid holidays, private heath care and match my pension contributions then yes that's fine.

I have to say if I had to get an ltd and an accountant and generate invoices there's no way I'd contract (assuming I had a choice). Guess that means I'm not a real contractor, even if I end up doing this for the next twenty years...

[SlipTheJab]

Even if all tax breaks were removed?

If HMRC want to give me sick pay, paid holidays, private heath care and match my pension contributions then yes that's fine.

[seanraaron]

Again you are showing no awareness of the law. Heard of the Agency Workers Regulations?

Also some of us who work through limited companies contract directly with clients. Why would I place another organisation in the middle of that relationship who may go bust if I don't have to?

That seems fair enough if you have the relationship, but without the extra breaks it doesn't seem worthwhile.