RBS, contractors and IR35

[JohntheBike]

You are entitled to that view of course and he is entitled to disagree.

However, this thread is not a vehicle for personal spats or points scoring and I'd respectfully request that you both take it elsewhere please?

I think you need to address that request to Northernladuk. I'm not verbally abusing anyone on these fora.

[webberg]

No, my remarks are addressed to you both.

I'd rather this thread stuck to the point.

[JohntheBike]

No, my remarks are addressed to you both.

I'd rather this thread stuck to the point.

ok

[northernladuk]

No, my remarks are addressed to you both.

I'd rather this thread stuck to the point.

Erm.. Isn't the point of this thread to discuss RBS contractors?

[Barry Badrinath]

Has kinda become a more general 'doomsday scenarios' discussion now it transpires the original reported RBS position was bollocks.

When do we expect the draft legislation to be published?

[Invisiblehand]

Erm.. Isn't the point of this thread to discuss RBS contractors?

LOL.

[JohntheBike]

Has kinda become a more general 'doomsday scenarios' discussion now it transpires the original reported RBS position was bollocks.

When do we expect the draft legislation to be published?

today?

[WordIsBond]

which leads me to believe that he is an HMRC mole.

Jumped the shark with that one, mate.

[WordIsBond]

But for me, the easy way to kill contracting is just to increase the dividend tax to something like 20%.

That would not kill contracting. It would kill Tax-Motivated-Incorporation, which is not the same thing. It would also hurt pensioners.

If you offset it partly by reducing corporation tax to 15%, you would make UK plc more competitive globally, reduce the impact on pensioners (their tax on dividends would be higher but their dividends would be higher, too), and still probably pretty much eliminate TMI. At which point you could just kill IR35 and spare clients all this hassle. It would bring in more revenue than IR35 has ever brought in.

[JohntheBike]

Jumped the shark with that one, mate.

perhaps