First timer advice pls...

[Orangutan]

[QUOTE=r0bly0ns]or pay peanuts for a monkey

You'd be surprised how good we can be !
Bananas are acceptable currency as well

[Ollie]

If you think you can pick and choose where you work, you have a rude shock coming. Similar skills here and I do 80% London, 9.9 % Scotland, Manchester, Leeds
.1 % Singapore. which was nice.

You have to follow the work my friend

I understand that. But for my first contract I would like to stay close to home while I get myself into a routine.

Midlands = Birmingham, Coventry, Warwick, Milton Keynes, Derby, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Banbury.

Quite a large area really.

[MrsGoof]

or pay peanuts for a monkey

You'd be surprised how good we can be !
Bananas are acceptable currency as well

but you are not a monkey, you have no tail

[Ollie]

Wales is a large area too... there's still almost feck all here...

Thanks for pointing that out



EternalOptimist, What happened to the other 10% ???

[MrsGoof]

Try a search on joberve here is 1 linky I did earlier for you, rates seem to vary quite a lot.
dont expect to get advertised rates but you should get close

[Ollie]

Try a search on joberve here is 1 linky I did earlier for you, rates seem to vary quite a lot.
dont expect to get advertised rates but you should get close

Thanks for the linky. Did you post earlier??? I don't see it!!

Cheers anyway.

[Ollie]

Ok, I handed in my resignation the other day and my employer has offered to contract me to work on phase 2 of a project I have managed over the past year.

What should I do and what should I look out for???

[XperTest]

You should look out for IR35. Taking your first contract with your current employer doing the same type of work will essentially mean you will be inside IR35, hence paying more taxes.

[Ollie]

Thanks for the reply.

Do you think there is any way I could get outside IR35?? Any loopholes?

[TheFaQQer]

Thanks for the reply.

Do you think there is any way I could get outside IR35?? Any loopholes?

Seems unlikely to me (no doubt Pickle will tell you that IR35 is dead (FACT!) and it's a voluntary tax etc. etc.).

Talk to someone like B&C / Qdos / Lawspeed etc. and see if they can see any way to get out of it.