Chancellor’s contractor cash grab will cost UK £16.6bn, warns Danbro

[FatLazyContractor]

Hotels, meals, hookers, coke....

The rest wasted

MrsMarkyMark ?

[BolshieBastard]

"The Government is planning to scrap tax relief on travel expenses for Britain’s army of contractors in a move that will cost each freelancer an average of £200 a week – totalling £16.6bn a year for the UK’s 1.6m contractors."

rate + expenses = cost to client

That's how I've always charged my clients, that's how I will continue. Any contractor claiming they assume the cost of travel themselves is not a real freelancer but a permie.

Good luck with that. Watch how market forces squeeze you.

Oh and the bit about those who subsume (not 'assume') the cost are not real freelancers is utter bulltulip.

[scooterscot]

Good luck with that. Watch how market forces squeeze you.

Oh and the bit about those who subsume (not 'assume') the cost are not real freelancers is utter bulltulip.

Why do you think I don't work in the UK very much anymore? Cause clients, big yins at least, are living in the past. I had a joker calling me up the other trying to blow my skirt up with rates I was charging in 2004/5.

What's the difference between a contractor and a permie paying for fuel to travel to work each day? Nothing. In fact it's unfair to permie's when you think about it.

Real freelancers charge for all their costs.

[swamp]

If as expected T&S tax relief is withdrawn in tomorrow's Autumn Statement, will London contract rates go up?

[MrO666]

So I thought the plan was to remove T&S for any contractors under SDC ?

Are we now thinking it'll just be a blanket ban ?

[BrilloPad]

If as expected T&S tax relief is withdrawn in tomorrow's Autumn Statement, will London contract rates go up?

Yes. All the f**kwitted northerners will go back to their hovels to breed racing whippets. And whine about "Shandy Drinking Southerners" when most of them can't even spell TripleIronMan let alone complete one.

Should be a huge rate rise for the Southerners left. I think I might even get married again. Dallas has turned me down once but I will try again.

[swamp]

Yes. All the f**kwitted northerners will go back to their hovels to breed racing whippets. And whine about "Shandy Drinking Southerners" when most of them can't even spell TripleIronMan let alone complete one.

Should be a huge rate rise for the Southerners left. I think I might even get married again. Dallas has turned me down once but I will try again.

Great news.

Will they now cancel the HS2 project if the northerners can't afford to use it?

[Waldorf]

Clearly the brollies are worried. However we have all seen examples of brollies encouraging their clients to max out claims, not supply receipts, claim for sleeping on a mates sofa, all these practices have rocked the boat too much hence the attacks we are now getting from HMRC!

T&S shouldn't be claimed if you only have the one site base whilst with the brolly, but they seem to ignore this and claim anyway, another reason why HMRC are on the hunt.

[AtW]

If as expected T&S tax relief is withdrawn in tomorrow's Autumn Statement, will London contract rates go up?

Yes, the rates will go up massively.



At suicide booths...

[AtW]

Clearly the brollies are worried. However we have all seen examples of brollies encouraging their clients to max out claims, not supply receipts, claim for sleeping on a mates sofa, all these practices have rocked the boat too much hence the attacks we are now getting from HMRC! T&S shouldn't be claimed if you only have the one site base whilst with the brolly, but they seem to ignore this and claim anyway, another reason why HMRC are on the hunt.

Why are they worried? Didn't they get your memo that under the Labour it would have been worse?