Muppet IR35 question - are they making me disguised employee or am I being rude?

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

And even when they do, it's not looked upon lightly, going by past lost IR35 cases. More often than not, the IR argues the changes were in fact for nothing more than an IR35 avoidance measure, and unfortunately judges have shown a habit of agreeing with that.

Exactly

[JamJarST]

Agree with every word of that.



Well, as we've discussed, shorter contracts can be helpful. But, any sizable project cannot be delivered in under a year, whether that be an I.T. project or any other form of engineering project. I've just finished a single piece of work on a single project with no element of direction or control that took two years. Can't be helped sometimes, particularly for those of us who've been around a long time in the business and are taken on to handle larger enterprise projects.

Rubbish! I have worked on several SAP implementations that were less than a year.

[northernladuk]

Rubbish! I have worked on several SAP implementations that were less than a year.

And I have worked on some that have been well over a year....

[JamJarST]

And I have worked on some that have been well over a year....

Yep and so have I, and I know of ones that took over two years and were never realised in the end. But I digress, my point was that nomadd's statement about sizable projects taking longer than a year was not factually accurate.

[nomadd]

my point was that nomadd's statement about sizable projects taking longer than a year was not factually accurate.

My point was that most sizable projects do take over a year; that is factually accurate. The fact that one individual SAP project you worked on took less than a year changes nothing - as other posters clearly pointed out...

The vast majority of large enterprise projects take well in excess of a year, hence why the duration of a contract is such a farcical consideration in the farcical legislation known as IR35.