Reply to: Crackdown on personal service companies could raise £400m in tax

[MrMarkyMark]

re read what i said!

I said that if this had happened, a nuclear warhead would have been dropped and most of us will be going perm tomorrow

It was always a big IF, especially as it was always going to be totally unworkable.

Just like many of the other tin pot ideas the government comes up with.

[jonneymendoza]

I give up. Rumour and conjecture are not bullets or nuclear warheads. They're unsubstantiated bumpf. If these things terrify you so much perhaps you should return to being a permie where you appear to belong.
People going self-employed then getting upset because they don't feel "safe". What's next?

re read what i said!

I said that if this had happened, a nuclear warhead would have been dropped and most of us will be going perm tomorrow

[LucidDementia]

The trouble when something doesn't happen, is being able to prove that it was likely in the first place.

Undeniably true, however I take solace in the fact that I said it was all lunacy from the beginning. Even if I was guessing in the dark I look like I got it right.

[TheFaQQer]

There was never a bullet.

Get on with your life.

The trouble when something doesn't happen, is being able to prove that it was likely in the first place.

Of course, when the IR35 consultation comes to pass, there's nothing to prevent the introduction of some idea to move people onto the payroll of the agency or client under certain conditions. The trick from here is to work on what those conditions are.

[LucidDementia]

i can imagine 8/10 of us here are one man band contractors so we have indeed dodged a freaking nuclear warhead, nevermind a bullet because had that 1 month max nonsense got approved most of us would be going perm.

I give up. Rumour and conjecture are not bullets or nuclear warheads. They're unsubstantiated bumpf. If these things terrify you so much perhaps you should return to being a permie where you appear to belong.
People going self-employed then getting upset because they don't feel "safe". What's next?

[AtW]

i can imagine 8/10 of us here are one man band contractors so we have indeed dodged a freaking nuclear warhead, nevermind a bullet because had that 1 month max nonsense got approved most of us would be going perm.

Nuclear warhead ALWAYS lands in the bulls eye of nuclear explosion epicenter...

[MicrosoftBob]

MPs represent multinationals, the establishment, and anyone who will give them a cushy well paid directorship or consultancy fees (preferably cash in brown envelopes). And who the fook are you?

FTFY

[ItRYmyBEst]

i can imagine 8/10 of us here are one man band contractors so we have indeed dodged a freaking nuclear warhead, nevermind a bullet because had that 1 month max nonsense got approved most of us would be going perm.

I would have set up a consultancy

[jonneymendoza]

There was never a bullet.

Get on with your life.

i can imagine 8/10 of us here are one man band contractors so we have indeed dodged a freaking nuclear warhead, nevermind a bullet because had that 1 month max nonsense got approved most of us would be going perm.

[AtW]

MPs are exempt from the rules on disguised consultations.

MPs represent the People. And who the fook are you?

[jamesbrown]

FTFY

MPs are exempt from the rules on disguised consultations.

[AtW]

I think at best we can say that any changes will be forthcoming in 2017 and probably announced soonish in the form of a "Consultation" doc.

FTFY

[MarkT]

Think they'll really struggle with that.

Yeah - me too. Can't see why they'd even try.

[Zero Liability]

More likely they will arrive in 2017 and be backdated. To 2015. Or maybe further.

Think they'll really struggle with that.

[BrilloPad]

I think at best we can say that any changes will be forthcoming in 2017 and probably announced soonish in the form of a Consultation doc.

More likely they will arrive in 2017 and be backdated. To 2015. Or maybe further.