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

[seanraaron]

I really don't want yet another link in the chain holding onto my money thank you, it's bad enough having the risk of the client or agency going belly up owing thousands.

Even if all tax breaks were removed?

[SueEllen]

There really should be an easier way though. I guess the only real option would be to somehow force people into umbrellas or force agencies to become umbrellas themselves.

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?

[SueEllen]

Even if all tax breaks were removed?

People do in Norway and other Nordic countries where there are no tax breaks.

[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.

[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]

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...

[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]

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

Hahahaha, you're good man!

[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.

[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.

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