Reply to: HMRC contractors leaving HMRC

[quackhandle]

The biggest mercenaries at current client co are the permies when it comes to overtime.

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[DotasScandal]

They're contractors - if the rate's good you take it.
Expecting contractors to be the conscience is a bit rich...

Think you're mixing up contractors and mercenaries...

[SlipTheJab]

I would have refused and stood with my fellow contractors

Amen comrade, when you go can I have your 28 inch widescreen monitor and swivel chair, It'll be gone by the time you exit the car park!

[WordIsBond]

I would have refused and stood behind my fellow contractors with my knife in their backs

FTFY

[northernladuk]

They're contractors - if the rate's good you take it.

Expecting contractors to be the conscience is a bit rich...

I would have refused and stood with my fellow contractors

[cojak]

The contractors that willingly worked on the tool should be blackballed. Turn coats.

They're contractors - if the rate's good you take it.

Expecting contractors to be the conscience is a bit rich...

[northernladuk]

The contractors that willingly worked on the tool should be blackballed. Turn coats.

[bobspud]

Wonder if that rate increase will compensate for the back taxes HMRC will want?

Or wonder how they will cope when every single contractor uses HMRC's own stupidity to take them to tribunal and get all the back holiday and sick pay...

After all they have been victims of unscrupulous clients using them to avoid employers NI...

[BoredBloke]

Wonder if that rate increase will compensate for the back taxes HMRC will want?

[b r]

I've since heard lots of people saying not as many left as they expected and a lot went umbrella with increases in rate at the last minute.

Surely that sentence should say:

I've since heard lots of people saying not as many left as they expected and a lot went umbrella because of increases in rate at the last minute.

[quackhandle]

Not sure how I would confirm it.

I know a lot of people who contract for HMRC quite well. I heard a lot of 'estimates' of 70-80% of contractors leaving before the fact and I've since heard lots of people saying not as many left as they expected and a lot went umbrella with increases in rate at the last minute.

I'm very confident about the Newcastle number.

Fair enough, this guy was at Telford I believe.

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[marius123]

Not sure how I would confirm it.

I know a lot of people who contract for HMRC quite well. I heard a lot of 'estimates' of 70-80% of contractors leaving before the fact and I've since heard lots of people saying not as many left as they expected and a lot went umbrella with increases in rate at the last minute.

I'm very confident about the Newcastle number.

[Nitro]

Yup, I know personally that many in HMRC are decided to leave ;-)

[quackhandle]

They didn't lose anything close to that number. It was about 30% in Newcastle and a bit higher in London.

And you can confirm that? The guy is working at HMRC, so I think he'd have a pretty good idea on numbers.

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[BlasterBates]

I reckon the main motivation is fear of back taxes. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot return as employees of big outsourcing companies.