Staying in the same public sector contract after April 2017

[jonnyboy]

QDOS have been quiet on these forums since the AS (I expect, very busy).
I have QDOS tax insurance, but not IR35 insurance..... maybe somebody who is interested in the answer and has a fuller QDOS cover would be good enough to ask???

[eek]

QDOS have been quiet on these forums since the AS (I expect, very busy).
I have QDOS tax insurance, but not IR35 insurance..... maybe somebody who is interested in the answer and has a fuller QDOS cover would be good enough to ask???

QDOS have sent an email out that linked to a blog post.

Don't panic and we are working with agencies seems to be their response. Personally I don't think leaving the public sector is panicking I think its a sensible approach until you know how things have settled.

[northernladuk]

QDOS have been quiet on these forums since the AS (I expect, very busy).
I have QDOS tax insurance, but not IR35 insurance..... maybe somebody who is interested in the answer and has a fuller QDOS cover would be good enough to ask???

It's only 2 days since the announcement so I'd hope unlike many of us on here they are sifting through it carefully to make sure their response is timely and full unlike the knee jerk stuff we've had on here for the last two days.

They have mailed as eek said but it's going to take a bit of time for any business to get a decent response together.

[youngguy]

Nope - the figures scare me. But I am no clearer in terms of...

1) If I have my client agree no SCD, does this effect me (yes, I know its in terms of agency risk) - so what if I have no SCD in black and white but the agent disagrees - do I have a right of appeal, can I drop the agent but still work for the same client?
2) If I do project work (I develop X at home, then install it in 6 months and charge you £500) - is factor into IR35 (I have asked my accountant, no reply as yet)
3) What about say support and maintenance payments from PS companies from work I did 4 years ago?

The consultation documents and workflow tends to suggest that in all these examples, IR35 and the changes will not impact, but then again, no-one has agreed that they are clear of IR35.

Just wondering, have you sought your agent's view? I wonder what they think/feel after the AS

[jonnyboy]

Just wondering, have you sought your agent's view? I wonder what they think/feel after the AS

Yep - first thing this morning, by email. Nothing back yet. I tried to call, but they 'were not available'

[youngguy]

Yep - first thing this morning, by email. Nothing back yet. I tried to call, but they 'were not available'

I can't imagine they want x amount of angry contractors on the phone demanding rate increases or terminating.

Although at my last PS, very few contractors had any idea about this at all and didn't grasp it when I told them.....

[Ketto]

Thank heavens for CUK, gave me plenty of upfront warning about this so i could get myself into the private sector in good time. Wasn't easy after 10 years straight in the public sector!

[Qdos Contractor]

QDOS have been quiet on these forums since the AS (I expect, very busy).
I have QDOS tax insurance, but not IR35 insurance..... maybe somebody who is interested in the answer and has a fuller QDOS cover would be good enough to ask???

Yep, it's been busy. Struggled to follow the forum in detail but feel free to ask any questions (can't promise I'll have many answers).

Seb

[jonnyboy]

Yep, it's been busy. Struggled to follow the forum in detail but feel free to ask any questions (can't promise I'll have many answers).

Seb

What I find surprising (IPSE and QDOS, feel free to respond) is the same thing I found surprising about the brexit vote.
If I was prime minister before brexit, way before the vote, I would have had a plan. then on the morning, instead of coming out with my tail betwen my legs, I would have come out with 200 people - 100 people from the depts of T&I/InternationalTrade, and 100 people from places like the LondonSchoolOfEconomics, saying 'right, we are where we are, nobody panic, we have planned for this - these two people (1 gov, 1 LSOE) wil be going straight to india, these 2 to china, these 2 to brazil, these 2 to france, etc.

This thing was going to go 3 ways... 1) No comment (not going to happen), 2) We are not ready (pushed out by a year or two) or 3) Full Monty In.

I am so surprised that the likes of IPSE and QDOS (I am a customer BTW) did not have al these basis covered, rather than the wait and see option. I have been working on my own plan B (just in case) since August.

After all, this thing is going to decimate the contractor market, therefore your collective user bases.

[northernladuk]

That's why you are just a contractor