Impact of Budget 2016

[jamesbrown]

Increase your rates whenever you think you can. That said, changes in tax policy would be an odd reason (and an even worse justification to a client) to do that. In other words, if you think you can get more, why haven't you asked for it already?

[DimPrawn]

Since clients are always happy to enforce rate cuts and generally keep costs as low as possible, to counter a general trend of falling rates, one has to try and push rates up as much as possible.

So if the client will pay, of course, try to raise your rate. I suspect rates won't be going anywhere in future except down and down.

[Waldorf]

Surely anyone always tries to raise their rate, whatever the tax situation. The fact is that if the client won't pay then we have to suffer the tax due.

[ibzmiller]

Is anyone thinking of raising their contract rates to lessen the impact of the new dividend tax setup?