25,000 Extra Companies Registered

[rawly]

They're all help-desk monkeys, not proper contractors

"Hello, IT............. Have you tried switching it off and on again......"

[Epiphone]

They're all help-desk monkeys, not proper contractors

Oi. We have feelings too y'know

[Weltchy]

They're all help-desk monkeys, not proper contractors

[Maxamus]

250,000 independent contractors in this country?
that cant be right surely

[Newby]

Gordo suggested that 250,000 contractors use composite or managed personal service companies, so 25,000 is the tip of the iceberg!!!

[Maxamus]

25,000 extra companies?
Damn i didnt realise there were that many contractors/freelancers in the uk

[reginald]

No wonder my VAT registration is taking so fffing long.

[vyas]

I am on the bandwagon too

[gingerjedi]

I tried to register one yesterday that was available for 2 years after it had ceased trading but it was in the process of being registered by someone else when I tried to proceed further, so things are hotting up down at CH.

I just added 'services' to the name and it went through.

[Bluebird]

I wonder how much all of this will cost the various government agencies [ CH, HMRC etc ] over the next 5 years, no doubt Gordon can fund the additional expenditure required by persecuting the brollies & their clients.

[Bigbird]

I was expecting more than that to be honest.

Wearing one of my other hats (I do some book-keeping for an agency on an ad-hoc basis) I was told by a memebr of staff at Brooksons that they alone are in the process of registering 17000 companies on behalf of their "members"........

[pisces]

at CH between December and February according to one report due to the clampdown on Composites.

That's one hell of a lot of IR35 investigations for the taxman to be getting through