Eagle Umbrella

[Metromaniac]

I have been looking at Eagle Umbrella. Someone said they have been around for ages, yet when I looked them up on companies house it says they were only incorporated in April 2007???

Companies house shows Eagle Umbrella changed its name from ECUMBRELLA LIMITED in May 2007??

Name & Registered Office:
EAGLE UMBRELLA LIMITED
15A HARBOUR ROAD
INVERNESS
IV1 1SY
Company No. SC320476

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 05/04/2007

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
None Supplied
Accounting Reference Date: 30/04
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 05/02/2009
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 03/05/2008
Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
08/05/2007 ECUMBRELLA LIMITED

Has anyone used them or is anyone using them?

[Ardesco]

Never heard of them


HTH

[Metromaniac]

Never heard of them


HTH

Nor me until the other day. I've been doing a lot of searching on umbrella's recently and trying to find out who would be a bona fide one to trust as my circumstances are looking to change in the near future and so many colleagues have mentioned so many different umbrella's yet most of them either have bad press or don't check out too good.

15A Harbour Road sounds like a residential address too??

[TheFaQQer]

I go a lot on quality of website, which rules these guys out as a starter.

Claims of "no risk of IR35 investigations" (well, duh!!) I can understand - how they ensure that there is "no higher rate tax liability at the end of the year" beats me, though - what do they do with anything over £38k???

Doesn't look good to me, but then I never look at umbrella companies anyway.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Have a look at Parasol

I used them for 3 and a bit years and never had a problem. Left only because i wanted to set up LTD co otherwise would have no problem still being with them now.

[TheFaQQer]

I went to the site map, then to "Articles" and it redirected me to OnlyPunjab.com

Other sites that the "Articles" link to include

- ezinearticles.com
- websitepaymentsystems.com
- creditcards24.biz

[Metromaniac]

I went to the site map, then to "Articles" and it redirected me to OnlyPunjab.com

Other sites that the "Articles" link to include

- ezinearticles.com
- websitepaymentsystems.com
- creditcards24.biz

Oh dear, I thought you were joking, I just checked it out, took me a few mins to find it though as I didn't realise the world gif was the site map and then sure enough I too was transported to OnlyPunjab.com and ezines etc with pop ups a plenty when I tried the links in the articles section. This is really not very good and far from my expectation of a professional services provider particularly one that is dealing with ones finances!

Thanks for the feedback, I kinda already made my mind up about them but I think this concretes my decision not to use their services in the future.

[Ardesco]

Claims of "no risk of IR35 investigations" (well, duh!!) I can understand - how they ensure that there is "no higher rate tax liability at the end of the year" beats me, though - what do they do with anything over £38k???

Well as an umbrella doesn't let you take divvies and all of your income will go through PAYE IR35 doesn't apply, so they are correct in this instanse. However I think this is prolly some Sikh guy (bearing in mind the websites it links to) trying to set his LTD Co up as a umbrella company in an attempt to make a bit more dough on the side. i would give it a miss and go for one of the ones that are spoken highly of on these forums.

[TheFaQQer]

Well as an umbrella doesn't let you take divvies and all of your income will go through PAYE IR35 doesn't apply, so they are correct in this instanse. However I think this is prolly some Sikh guy (bearing in mind the websites it links to) trying to set his LTD Co up as a umbrella company in an attempt to make a bit more dough on the side. i would give it a miss and go for one of the ones that are spoken highly of on these forums.

I agree - I believe that Giant won "Umbrella Company of the Year" at the prestigious ContractorUK awards last year.

They seem to get a good press, I've never heard a word against them, and think they are lovely...

[Metromaniac]

They seem to get a good press, I've never heard a word against them, and think they are lovely...

Hmm, I assume there is a hint of sarcasm in your response as not all that I have read on this forum is quite as positive regarding Giant.