When you are the only contractor on site

[northernladuk]

Can you be in a contract longer than 24 months? Just picking of what people said here or is that only for public sector?
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Jesus wept... If you are asking this question you shouldn't be contracting.

[SlipTheJab]

Quite right. Invoicing is for meetings.

I find WFH is a good time to catch up on all that

[stek]

That was the fall back option when I had to get paper ones signed, fortunately a good few years ago now.

Usually I was working away, so if they had a fax machine somewhere convenient it was easier to fax it off on the way out on a Friday than waste part of an already short weekend at home with paperwork.

And then you had to post your invoice off with the yellow copy of the signed timesheet when you got home.

[Hobosapien]

And then you had to post your invoice off with the yellow copy of the signed timesheet when you got home.

No, I think I faxed or emailed the invoice too along with the timesheet.

Certainly didn't rely on the postal system to give the agencies another excuse to drag their feet paying up.

[Unix]

The best is being with another contractor who is tulip, makes you look really good and he gets the blame for everything, anyone who has contracted alongside NLUK know what I mean

[northernladuk]

The best is being with another contractor who is tulip, makes you look really good and he gets the blame for everything, anyone who has contracted alongside NLUK know what I mean

[Drei]

Jesus wept... If you are asking this question you shouldn't be contracting.

We are not all read up and clued up with 50 years experience contractors. I know the 24 month applies to traveling expenses but now I hear more and more about a 24 month rule in the public sector, based on your comment I will take it that this rule is for them due to cost savings etc. Some people said that if you contract for longer periods ie 24 months+ the HMRC might be keen to catch you in the IR35. After all if someone needs you for longer than 24 months you should go permanent.

When you have a burst pipe or change your boiler you pay your plumber a pretty hefty fee to do that particular job not become permanent member of your house or become your cleaner.

[missinggreenfields]

We are not all read up and clued up with 50 years experience contractors. I know the 24 month applies to traveling expenses but now I hear more and more about a 24 month rule in the public sector, based on your comment I will take it that this rule is for them due to cost savings etc. Some people said that if you contract for longer periods ie 24 months+ the HMRC might be keen to catch you in the IR35. After all if someone needs you for longer than 24 months you should go permanent.

There is nothing that says after 24 months you have to leave a contract, either in public or private sector. If the client has that rule then that's for them as individual clients.

I know people who have been in the same contract for literally decades - and as long as they are happy and the client is, why would you walk away from that?

[dx4100]

We are not all read up and clued up with 50 years experience contractors. I know the 24 month applies to traveling expenses but now I hear more and more about a 24 month rule in the public sector, based on your comment I will take it that this rule is for them due to cost savings etc. Some people said that if you contract for longer periods ie 24 months+ the HMRC might be keen to catch you in the IR35. After all if someone needs you for longer than 24 months you should go permanent.

When you have a burst pipe or change your boiler you pay your plumber a pretty hefty fee to do that particular job not become permanent member of your house or become your cleaner.

Length of contract has no impact on IR35...

So you could have a client for 7 years and still be IR35 compliant.

But, the longer you stay at a company the greater the danger of you becoming part and parcel of it. So you have to keep making sure you are operating outside that IR35 bubble at all times.

[Lance]

Quite right. Invoicing is for meetings.

I count my money on online banking during meetings.