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    Copyright - Star Wars

    If you've got kids and they're boys you could call it Tatooine Systems & Sons Ltd. Think about it. :nerd :igmc:
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    Self Assessment required for my wife?

    WHS
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    IR35 furor amongst the pidgeons

    Can't remember the wording of the question, but how can you give an inside/outside answer if you have 2 contracts in a year, 1 inside 1 outside?
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    Client does not want to pay me on time

    WGS. Yes, they should pay on time, but the pay drought is just at the beginning of the contract. Once you've got a few of the fortnightly's in, it'll be regular enough that you'll not think twice about it. In the current climate I wouldn't kick off about it. If they bin you and they're a good...
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    Switching to IR35 caught mid contract

    Absolutely! :) I was able to put a clause into my contract with the agency saying that no terms in the upper level contract can negate or invalidate any terms in mine. For what it's worth. I just hope it shows an awareness and a degree of due dilligence. I end up banging the IR35 drum whenever...
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    Switching to IR35 caught mid contract

    Surely the working practices are the thing to focus on here rather than the contract though. Let's say your main contact at the client allows for a substitution clause in the contract and backs that up in a "confirmation of working practices" questionnaire/email. What happens when they leave a...
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    New IR35 Guidance hot off the presses

    In my 12 years experience, this is not the case. We may well influence some technology decisions which end up being adopted or manage a project outsourcing the support desk, but that's hardly controlling and directing the activities of the organisation (as a whole). The Student Loans guy was a...
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    New IR35 Guidance hot off the presses

    Seriously, how many of their 40% of IT contract staff are going to be "senior" enough to: - "control and direct the activities of the organisation – for example members of the senior management team" Less than 1%? It's got more holes than a Swiss cheese convention.
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    New IR35 Guidance hot off the presses

    Just don't get this. If it's only a guidance tool and not going to be used, they may as well have put a recipe for rice pudding up for all it's relevance, no? It is going to be used and it's clearly how they evaluate if you're within scope or not. Would be interesting to know how Qdos et al...
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    New PCG IR35 Questionnaire

    Agreed. I can see why HMRC want to pigeon-hole everything neatly into easily classifiable entities and tax accordingly, but it's not an exact science; there’re too many variables in play. My parents ran a successful business for many years, and as soon as they took on extra staff, you could see...
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    Budget 2012

    And what happens when that director is found to be legally claiming Child Benefit because he's under the 50k phase out amount, since (I believe) this is based on their PAYE income rather than including any dividends? "That's not really in the spirit of the tax system" will be the argument...
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    Budget 2012

    WJOS The "integral to the running of an organisation" is the key part. Your average contractor will certainly never fill this criteria, whatever their delusions of grandeur may tell them. They're more concerned with the cases from the public sector which made the news recently.
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    HMRC Investigation Protection

    Surely alarm bells should have been ringing when they offered automatic annual extensions at the end of 2003? Sort of shot himself in the foot with that. "And fundamentally Allianz wants to engage him as a permanent member of the team." Not sure how that's entirely relevant though. It's not...
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    HMRC Investigation Protection

    Great isn't it? Always check the T&Cs. :banana:
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    HMRC Investigation Protection

    I must have had a sixth sense as I upgraded to PCG+ insurance about 3 months before a jury summons! I was out of contract at the time but the insurance paid out up to £300 per day (less the amount you could claim back from the courts) up to 10 days. Just that episode alone meant it paid for...
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