Will contracting go out with a bang or a whimper?

[MrMarkyMark]

Very clever. So, they own a travel agency, insist on all their consultants working away and arrange their own travel, billing that back to the client, rather than simply the day rate of a local consultant? So, the tax payer is paying double bubble for every travelling Capita consultant on government projects. They'll obviously justify it with the old "no specialists in the area" tulip.

Yep, I spoke to lots of people, who pretty much confirmed that is the case.

[OnceStonedRose]

Has anyone had their Finance Director take a look and advise as to where they stand, I got onto mine, absolutely crumby national tax accountancy place, and received a moody excel spreadsheet IR35 risk calculator, and a pdf of a spunky page they had cobbled together showing the Provisional Incorporation Planner - 2016/17, which basically said, "yeah you'll have to pay a couple of grand dividend tax".

Hi OnceStonedRose,
Re the expenses, the third party rules don’t apply to people not caught by IR35 and we think you are ok for that, IR35 questionnaire attached to check.
I have also done a check (on XXk profit) on the attached to compare tax now and tax next year, you are still better off.
Finally see link to info on our web page to dividends changes http://www.wankynationaltaxaccountan...llowance/id/66
Hope that goes some way to help.

So glad I'm better off even after Gideons attempts to have my kecks down, nice try cocknosed chancellor of the exchequer ... phew.

[Hobosapien]

Yep, I spoke to lots of people, who pretty much confirmed that is the case.

So the client pays the travel expenses on top of a typical day rate to the supplier for each body placed?

Is this common or is it just some way of the consultancy mangling the overall day rate so the client still pays the same typical rate and the consultancy gets a bigger slice of it by charging the consultant for the travel expenses?

As a contractor I've never had that kind of 'perk' of expenses on top of rate, instead having to claim expenses from my LTD so comes out of the rate the client pays rather than on top.

My current client, with whom I've already exhausted the 24 month rule for expenses, does have some 'consultants' on site so will be interesting to see if this travel expenses on top of day rate from the client's perspective is in play.