Estimated percentage of contrator gig adverts inside\outside IR35

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Qdos Contractor replied

20 March 2015, 11:05
Originally posted by psychocandy View Post

Really. You guys do mine and I'm pretty sure its the other way round for mine. And then 100% pass when changes are made.

To be honest I was surprised myself, but I got the guys to go through the last 1,000 records and that's the number. You're obviously one of the lucky ones!
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TheFaQQer replied

20 March 2015, 11:05
Originally posted by Qdos Consulting View Post

Well, roughly 75% of the contracts we review fail first time around.

You've always failed mine first time round, reworded and passed.

That doesn't mean that the contract is inside or outside, though - it just means that there is crap paperwork in place.
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psychocandy replied

20 March 2015, 10:12
Originally posted by Qdos Consulting View Post

Well, roughly 75% of the contracts we review fail first time around.

Really. You guys do mine and I'm pretty sure its the other way round for mine. And then 100% pass when changes are made.
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BlasterBates replied

20 March 2015, 10:12
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

And that's just the contracts. Hate you think how many of these fail in the actual working practices.

I get the impression reading forum posts that without the "substitution clause" quite a lot of contracts would fail.

Does anyone seriously believe their substitution clauses are realistic.
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northernladuk replied

20 March 2015, 09:43
Originally posted by Qdos Consulting View Post

Well, roughly 75% of the contracts we review fail first time around.

And that's just the contracts. Hate you think how many of these fail in the actual working practices.
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conejo replied

20 March 2015, 09:21
Originally posted by Qdos Consulting View Post

Well, roughly 75% of the contracts we review fail first time around.

Thanks for the info, that's interesting to know - are customers generally willing to reword contracts to become IR35 friendly or do contractors typically then have to operate inside IR35 for that contract?
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Qdos Contractor replied

20 March 2015, 09:12
Well, roughly 75% of the contracts we review fail first time around.
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conejo started a topic Estimated percentage of contrator gig adverts inside\outside IR35

19 March 2015, 18:00
Estimated percentage of contrator gig adverts inside\outside IR35

I'm still learning about the contracting world so bear with me on this one.

Let's say you took 1000 adverts for typical 6month\12month IT contracts for IT infrastructure\SQL\SCCM\.NET stack and you asked a company like QDOS to do a full IR35 on the contracts.

For the more experienced contractors out there, or for those that get regular IR35 reviews by legal professionals - what percentage of these do you think would be advised by the legal professionals as inside IR35, and how many outside?

The reason I ask this is to get a feel if contracts out there are really diverse and could fall in either category, or if a majority all have similar traits - ie end clients will try to keep their contacts written outside IR35, or inside IR35.

Thanks
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