Ultimately its very hard to know how the client is going to treat you until you are there, technically, they may well be in breach of a contract they have signed maybe? I know that my contract dictates i act/behave/ perform in a certain way, im assuming they are equally as obliged to understand what contract i have signed and thus treat me or expect to be treated by me in a certain way? Anyway. The fact is that i think that unless a company finds you say via your companys website, or, from a recommendation that 'so and so Ltd did a great job' and gets you in to do the work, as long as they deal with 'agencies' per say, its hard to know how they are going to treat you, and in this current climate, its just completely unviable to spit the dummy and look for something else, it would be a bad choice.
I like the term 'coasting' its an interesting thought. Lol. Ultimately this time could be used to be maybe refining my buisness plan, maybe partnering up with some companies and developing relationships which can help grow my buisness int he direction i wish to go. If all this was laid out ont he table, i find it hard to understand how the IR could even consider me as a 'tax dodger' when clearly that has never been and never was my intention, im trying to build a successful buisness.
If it comes down to it too, there are many companies out there that may want services for this specific purpose, skilled resources to fill a role for a period of time while an existing team is under-resouced. Utimately, that could potentially be a service my company could look to provide, theres no way my employees would be 'working' for that company, but, to give the customer what they want, if fitting into the team and exsisting tructure is what makes the customer happy and satisfied then thats the service i could provide.
At the end of the day, the way i look at IR35 etc is that it was brought in for people that royally took the michael. . and ultimatley give genuinue small buisnesses a bad name. When i started this company, i was actually amazed that the government will let me write off expenses and give allowances etc. . . i was thinking, thats great, thankyou very much, and i tried to understand what was in it for them? Well, clearly, growing the economy, and i thank them for trying to help me out. With this in mind, i have a full intention to act ethically in my buisness dealings and would not look at ever intentionally taking advantage of what i consider is genuinlely a perk from the UK Government.
Sure i can moan just like everyone else about this and that, but in the fine analysis, the only reason crappy regulations are usually brought in is because some smart ass somewhere is trying to take advantage of a system they put in place to help people out, so really, i just gotta focus on the way i go out buisness and keep it real. I think ultimately, we may read about how Joe Bloggs got caught out because he had the same colour ID card as every other employee, or that Joe had to ask bob if it was OK to take a day off rather than just say 'im taking tomorrow off to do my accounts' etc, and just get blogged down in these scary details, that make us ultimately very paranoid, but really i think what it comes down to is the 'Bigger Picture' of the way someone is working, and thier attitude. Im hoping armed with education about this legislation and a good attitude to buisness can keep things good. At the end of the day, whos got time to worry about all this stuff anyway, i know i havn't, ive got a business to run . .
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