Contract Killer - IR35 caught or not?

[KentPhilip]

call the revenue helpline and ask them

Good thinking.

I'll send them the following email:

Dear HMRC,

I’m thinking about setting up a business as a paid assassin, and I’m wondering whether I would be caught (by IR35 I mean)

If I only had one client, the mafia, but that client consisted of a number of gangs in different UK cities, would that count as a single “disguised employer”, or would the fact that I received payment in cash from different bags hidden on the top floor of several disused car parks and wasteland areas suggest that I have multiple sources of income?

If one of my assistants should be unfortunately shot dead in a gun battle after I have made a payment into his occupational pension, does that mean that I would be unable to regard that payment as deductable against tax because there would be no way to convert the pension into an annuity?

Finally if I was captured and imprisoned, could I claim that by spending time in jail that I am providing compensation to the aggrieved party (the state, or the judge), and that that demonstrates that I am running a true “business-to-business” arrangement, and that the IR35 provisions should not apply.

Thanks!

[zathras]

If I was a paid assassin, would I still be caught by IR35 if I only had one client?

Also rate negotiation: If your client paid £30K to kill someone, and you went to them, and they in turn offered £40K to NOT kill them, could you negotiate a higher rate from the client?

That would depend. Does the client insist on telling you when to do the job and provide you with the equipment. Does the client tell you how to kill someone.

Can you send a sub to do the job.

On the other hand would you tell an assasin that you want half his earnings!

[Burdock]

I wouldn't pay any tax at all. Shoot anybody from HMRC.

[BA to the Stars]

If you are caught & do time you can claim that you are paying for mistakes by yourself during the contract, therefore outside IR35.

[andy]

call the revenue helpline and ask them

[King Cnvt]

If I was a paid assassin, would I still be caught by IR35 if I only had one client?

Also rate negotiation: If your client paid £30K to kill someone, and you went to them, and they in turn offered £40K to NOT kill them, could you negotiate a higher rate from the client?

Clearly you are not an assassin in your own right, merely a disguised murderer. Tax please!

HTH

Hector

[angusglover]

Do you have a right of substitution? Does the client direct how you carry out the work. As it is based on a deliverable and you would be using your own equipement I presume - I think you'd be ok.

On the other hand your second para shows a distinct lack of professionalism. You should take the 40k, kill em and then take the 30k from the original client (mayne kill them as well just to be on the safe side)

HTH

Not to mention expenses required to and from the killing spree....

[Rantor]

If I was a paid assassin, would I still be caught by IR35 if I only had one client?

Also rate negotiation: If your client paid £30K to kill someone, and you went to them, and they in turn offered £40K to NOT kill them, could you negotiate a higher rate from the client?

Do you have a right of substitution? Does the client direct how you carry out the work. As it is based on a deliverable and you would be using your own equipement I presume - I think you'd be ok.

On the other hand your second para shows a distinct lack of professionalism. You should take the 40k, kill em and then take the 30k from the original client (mayne kill them as well just to be on the safe side)

HTH

[angusglover]

Have you been smoking something?

Please can I have some cos I need itttttttt!!!

[Kyajae]

If I was a paid assassin, would I still be caught by IR35 if I only had one client?

Also rate negotiation: If your client paid £30K to kill someone, and you went to them, and they in turn offered £40K to NOT kill them, could you negotiate a higher rate from the client?

Have you been smoking something?

[KentPhilip]

If I was a paid assassin, would I still be caught by IR35 if I only had one client?

Also rate negotiation: If your client paid £30K to kill someone, and you went to them, and they in turn offered £40K to NOT kill them, could you negotiate a higher rate from the client?