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How do you pay for your Relevant Life Cover? Personally or out the payments through your LTD Co as business expenses?
Are there any issues moving your RLC from your LTD company account to personal if in the future you choose to close down your company?
To Nothernlauk: Does that mean that I would have only one contract (me and Umbrella Company) and would not at the same time have another contract (me and end client) where the end client may insert a handcuff to restrict me working elsewhere?
I have two clients with who I have been working in parallel for last few years. Contractually and legally I am able to provide my services to both. Both clients are very much aware of this arrangement.
Now, I one of the clients want me to continue working with them via Umbrella company. I...
I have been offered by the End client to negotiate this matter separately with the Recruitment agency. Talking to the Agency rep. it looks like they are going to propose some sort of a "contract find fee" to be paid to them on monthly basis depending on number of days worked. Not sure how this...
Currently I work via my LTD company and have a contract with the recruitment agency who I bill on monthly basis. The recruitment agency have a contract with the end client to whom I provide my IT services.
The End client have decided to engage with me as a service provider directly starting...
I have been working direct (with no agency) with a well known IT Consultancy company in the UK and just about to finish my current project for their client based in the UK.
This same IT Consultancy company in the UK now offer me a role to work on the other project run by them. The end client...
I was requested to pay for mine. However, I chose not to dispute as to who should pay for this as ultimately I am directly interested to see the outcome as soon as possible.
I am going through this as my current client have engaged Qdos as a 3rd party to review the Working Practises of my current engagement (I am direct IT Contractor to my client with no agency in the middle).
My current contract and working practises are currently being assessed by Qdos to probe IR35. I have already completed the 42 Questions questionnaire 2 weeks ago and have not heard any update neither from Qods nor from my current client.
I wonder whether anyone on the forums have already been...
Among some other factors I though of SDS as well. My current and previous contracts with this current client have been reviewed by Qdos with "Marginal pass" mark. In reality I am not a subject to SDS as work as IT Architect producing designs, guiding the implementation team and dealing with...
I am reading recent posts on the forum and see there were lots of similar queries where contractors were switching to permanent employees. I wander whether they thought at all about these doomed consequences?
I have been working as a contractor (IT Architect) for the lat 1 year for my current client driving designs for their IT transformation project. I have now been offered a permanent role with the same client to continue working in my current capacity.
Question: How would the above described...
I have been providing providing my services (IT architecture) to my end client via my LTD company for the last 2 years having direct contract agreement between my LTD company and end client LTD company. The end client is one of the biggest system integrator companies in the UK. During this time...
My wife has already got 20% in my LTD. She has recently left her job and at the moment I am considering one of the below three option:
- company secretary
- assistant to Managing Director (me)
- company director
I am trying to understand the key difference between these three roles and decide...
I have got quite a bit of money sitting on my LTD business current account (HSBC) and was wondering whether I could put monies into some business saving account to start earning interest?
Any recommendations please?