Support Contractor Wanted Urgently!

[freakydancer]

I've been in 2nd/3rd line for 7 years now and have noticed the rates have started to bottom out. Im also getting bored of the desktops role and am going to go on the project management route

Im thinking about doing a Prince2 course - can anyone recommend a supplier (in london) and also whether to just do foundation, then practitioner another time, or both in one hit???

are you outside IR35? I do some 3rd line support and not too sure if I am or aren't

[NetwkSupport]

who knows mate im likely to be inside but dont tell anyone

[freakydancer]

who knows mate im likely to be inside but dont tell anyone

same here!

[NetwkSupport]

does anyone else feel like a criminal - for being inside ir35 even though paying the goverment thousands in personal/corporation tax every year??? because they have the potential to ask for more tax on top!?

[oraclesmith]

Unfortunately the HMRC make most small businesses, contractors or not, feel like criminals - or at least potential criminals. They go after most tradesmen for things like cash deals, avoiding the VAT threshold etc and traders get hassled on VAT and a host of other stuff.

http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.asp?REC=3928

To be fair to them, they're only trying that hard because the government is spending it faster than they're bringing it in!

[NetwkSupport]

No no lets not be fair to them, maybe they should stop spending so much money on war and weapons and concentrate that wonga on sorting out the nhs !

i know someone who works at the nhs and the primary care trust tells doctors that it will refuse certain applications drugs/procedures that patients need due to cost! ...howz that? you pay Ni for years, need a type of medicine thats very expensive and they tell u u cant have it and give u a lesser effective (cheaper) alternative?!

[oraclesmith]

No no lets not be fair to them, maybe they should stop spending so much money on war and weapons and concentrate that wonga on sorting out the nhs !

Which proves my point exactly. When the government need a few more billion to spend on these things, they go and talk to the much maligned HMRC to see if they can't work a little harder and squeeze a little bit more out the populace without losing too many votes.