Should I bill for days I was told not to attend?

[northernladuk]

Maybe the big firms have a late cancellation charge clause in their contracts.

...and...Their contacts will be bullet proof for a start, they are global big shots, not a guy using a standard contract. They also tend to work with SoW's rather than billing per day and take client downtime in to account. The also initially tender for the work at a loss and then make their money picking up work while they are plugged in.

Completely different model to a single bum on seat fighting IR35 with a standard contract they had no input in to.

[psychocandy]

I think the only point proved here was that your planning is a bit lacking if you managed it on time with no extra effort and having the time off

Or Im so good? :-)

[Wanderer]

Fascinating. 14 years of IR35 case law and precedent and we still have this total lack of understanding of Mutuality. The "bill-and-be-damned" crowd probably should be, but the test is an irreducible minimum of mutuality of obligation. Being paid for not working is not the minimum, regardless of why you are not working.

Just wondering how many of these cases were won or lost on the MOO argument. My impression is that HMRC seem to be downplaying MOO these days, indeed there is no mention of MOO at all in the HMRC's business entity tests....

[Old Greg]

Or Im so good? :-)

No, that's not it.