Advice Please!

[Mailman]

Sorry, MM. The fee was about an all in service - accs management, setting up business bank account. The sort of service SJD provide + the check by Qdos (which was originally quoted to me as being around £150).

Even £150 is far too much (this is a one off payment or monthly?). If this is monthly then you are getting fleeced! All of the stuff you mention above you can do yourself with a minimum of fuss.

You dont need to pay SJD £1200 a year for work you could do yourself (after all, we should all be trying to minimise outgoings and maximise profit ).

Re your contract...just get yourself an accountant who will say "Yes Denny, your contract is outside IR35". If you get an account that says you are caught...just change the fecker and keep going till you find an account who tells you what you want to hear

Mailman

[boredsenseless]

Even £150 is far too much (this is a one off payment or monthly?). If this is monthly then you are getting fleeced! All of the stuff you mention above you can do yourself with a minimum of fuss.

You dont need to pay SJD £1200 a year for work you could do yourself (after all, we should all be trying to minimise outgoings and maximise profit ).

Re your contract...just get yourself an accountant who will say "Yes Denny, your contract is outside IR35". If you get an account that says you are caught...just change the fecker and keep going till you find an account who tells you what you want to hear

Mailman

Ermmmm .... accountant telling you that you are outside IR35??? Last time I checked they weren't lawyers so intelligent as they are, they can only offer guidance not facts.

[Denny]

Even £150 is far too much (this is a one off payment or monthly?). If this is monthly then you are getting fleeced! All of the stuff you mention above you can do yourself with a minimum of fuss.

You dont need to pay SJD £1200 a year for work you could do yourself (after all, we should all be trying to minimise outgoings and maximise profit ).

Re your contract...just get yourself an accountant who will say "Yes Denny, your contract is outside IR35". If you get an account that says you are caught...just change the fecker and keep going till you find an account who tells you what you want to hear

Mailman

Those were the set up costs not the monthly fee which is around £70 per month or thereabouts. That's not bad considering they are taking away all the burden of doing the paperwork myself. When I have got my head around doing the paperwork and what's required I'll just let this service go and do it myself. My brolly charges me £60 per month to process the invoices anyway.

[Mailman]

Ermmmm .... accountant telling you that you are outside IR35??? Last time I checked they weren't lawyers so intelligent as they are, they can only offer guidance not facts.

Ermmmmmm...either way...just keep going till you find someone who says you are outside IR35 cause we all know its really down to Gordo and his evil henchment to decide who is and isnt caught by IR35

Mailman

[Denny]

Ermmmmmm...either way...just keep going till you find someone who says you are outside IR35 cause we all know its really down to Gordo and his evil henchment to decide who is and isnt caught by IR35

Mailman

If I never allow the client to brief me face to face (implies client control) only discuss the spec by telepathy, set my own laptop up, pitch a tent in the company carpark, and bring my own sandwiches and pee in the gutter and and always wear a clowns outfit to pop in on a Friday to reception to get my timesheet signed I shouldn't be mistaken for a pseudo employee and be outside IR35, me reckons.

[Mailman]

I dunno Denny, I reckon Gordo is going to want to see receipts for Sasguru's clown suit to make sure you have paid the correct amount of tax on it. After all, its only fair!

Mailman

[Denny]

I dunno Denny, I reckon Gordo is going to want to see receipts for Sasguru's clown suit to make sure you have paid the correct amount of tax on it. After all, its only fair!

Mailman

Good point, Mailman. If Gordo finds out I'm doing cartwheels round the carpark as a result of getting my money on time, he may conclude that acting like a clown and not just looking like one is not a pointer to differentiation from the rest of the staff but is an intrinsic part of my pseudo-employee status at the company.