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Recent content by jpdw
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Self Assessment - how difficult is it?
How difficult is this work and do most people just do this themselves or is the money well spent getting your accountant to do the leg work? Although I don't know will I still need to do some work myself even after paying them but I will check with them. After a pub conversation where some...- jpdw
- Post #10
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Possible pension changes in the budget
The likely changes to employers contributions is something I've been following in news/online articles etc. (taking a keen interest as it would affect me!!) Some reports/rumours suggest that any changes to make employers contributions less attractive could take affect from budget day - to...- jpdw
- Post #10
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Buy to let stamp duty surcharge and other related news
Sounds like its about as well thought through as the contractor/IR35 stuff. What's the "problem" he's trying to "fix" with this? (other than a general need for tax money) If it's to stop BTL from pushing up purchase prices for would-be homeowners, then exempting established landlords is like... -
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Standing on both sides of the escalator
Force them to be moved onto a permanent payroll, tax their oyster cards and drain any sense of ambition from them. Oops, sorry -- wrong thread. What a load of horlicks though. I bet the station staff thought it as daft as everyone else did. Rather than spending time telling busy people to... -
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Autumn Statement
Well if they don't define it, wouldn't it be rather hard to enforce?- jpdw
- Post #18
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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Autumn Statement
So a legal definition of a PSC will be forthcoming.....?- jpdw
- Post #15
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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How much are HMRC enjoying the PSC crackdown panic?
Or "I used the VAT for a deposit on a new beemer and now I can't afford the mortgage because my JSA didn't come through" -
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How much are HMRC enjoying the PSC crackdown panic?
They typically also don't understand much about running a business at all -- VAT & CT ("account does it all"), Dividends vs PAYE ("yup he does that too"), expenses ("I send my receipts to the accountant once a year"), etc,.... The same ones that wonder why they get to pay HMRC's fine if/when... -
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IR35 Crackdown proposed by Chancellor
The individuals are taking a decent level of risk by both being dependant on the same small venture. Compared to 2 unrelated people there's still the risk of one being out of contract disproportionately from the other yet expecting continued payment. I'm sure some H&W combos would absolutely...- jpdw
- Post #10
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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Crackdown on personal service companies could raise £400m in tax
Most of this now seems to be about the mechanism to penalise those people that become 'caught'. Whether the suggested WHT is used as a payment-on-account for MyCo's CT or my own IT/EES or MyCo's ERS still doesn't address how they deem a contract/MyCo or individual to need to pay 'more' vs... -
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Crackdown on personal service companies could raise £400m in tax
So compared to last weeks Grauniad "leak", today's round of "leaks" includes suggestions that having multiple clients might make a difference. But how would that work? I mean, multiple clients being worked by an individual or multiple clients being worked by the company? In MyCo case, we... -
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Will IT contractors be considered permanent employees after one month on site?
Why would you need a legal wrapper to aggregate an arbitrary number of independents who are offering a professional service? Couldn't it be just as valid to be a 2-person consultancy offering professional services? Or just ... 1 person....? Maybe the key differentiator is the lack of "...secure...- jpdw
- Post #107
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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Will IT contractors be considered permanent employees after one month on site?
Isnt that exactly Fred Bloggs' point ... the difference is far from clear. Yes, the "big 4" do 'accountancy' as well as providing staff to do specific work for clients (the word 'lend' was used, but I doubt the client gets it for gratis - political consulting aside). But there are other...- jpdw
- Post #101
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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Will IT contractors be considered permanent employees after one month on site?
This one month business is so dumb it really can't be more than a daft brainstorming idea. One to allow to 'leak' out and see what the reaction is.... A couple of points: 1/ If there's a 1 month limit, you just have a 1 month contract then renew for another month!!! Of course, even HMT/HMRC...- jpdw
- Post #47
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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Official Labour leadership thread
True. But as an official in a couple of unions before entering politics locally and eventually parliament he's not really got that much experience of life outside of the political world.
