Strange Contract

[SueEllen]

Just use a standard format (like the QDOS questionnaire) and hand everything off to the professionals if it comes to that. IIRC one of the issues with the JLJ case above was that they tried a DIY approach. On balance, I think it's a valuable thing to have, but there are no guarantees with anything, and the contents could be contradicted further down the line. Better to have one and to document any evidence that clarifies the actual working practices and let the professionals handle the rest.

Yep the main issue in the case is he didn't pay professionals to deal with his case.

[TheFaQQer]

I've a question about working practices though.

How would an investigation by HMRC uncover your working practices? Once I'm set up at the client site, any record of who asked whom to do what would be on end client's mail servers (or is there some other record?)

Do these investigations involve HMRC getting the end client to give access to this data?

Just curious,

Thanks

Without plugging a different site too much with a direct link - Contractor Weekly wrote a series of articles about how an investigation goes, called the IR35 Chronicles. Makes good reading of how what one person says can easily be misconstrued to make the situation worse for you.

[rurffy]

chill & bill

+ 365

[rurffy]

Is this a trick question?

Nothing to do and you're still getting paid? As others have said, sit back and keep on billing. You're basically getting paid to do WHATEVER you want (within reason).

Case-in-point: I was on a contract about 2 weeks ago where I had nothing to do literally all day after I ran the morning checklist. I was on site in case something went wrong. It didn't, What should have been a boring contract became something else instead because the rest of my time was spent studying for an upcoming exam (which I'm pretty confident I passed) and watching movies (my laptop has a privacy screen for this reason alone). Good to go.

Never turn down free money.

EDIT: If you're really stuck for ideas on what to do, download Rosetta Stone and learn a new language or something. Then go contract in China, where you'll probably have to do the amount of work you seem to want...

Ha! what an advice ... You are out of the door if found doing that where i work....