Our Market Commentators

Compelling messages from contracting’s Gurus

ContractorCalculator’s Market Commentators bring you cutting-edge insights and commentary on the hottest topics in the UK’s contractor marketplace. Our commentators are the leading market players, representing service providers, contracting sector bodies and contractors themselves.

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Dan Collier

CEO, Elevate Direct

Dan Collier is co-founder and Managing Director of Elevate. He has a background in recruitment and resource management, within City search and consulting firms.

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John Brazier

Managing Director, PCG

Since joining PCG as MD in 2007, John Brazier has brought about major change and PCG is now recognised as a serious and engaging player in the political world.

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Darren Fell

MD, Crunch

Darren is a well known Brighton-based entrepreneur and advocate of freelancing. Initially famous for the Pure360 email marketing system, he is now MD of Crunch.

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Dave Chaplin

CEO, ContractorCalculator

Dave Chaplin is a former IT contractor in the City of London, and is founder and CEO of ContractorCalculator, and author of the Contractors' Handbook.

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If contractors agree to trial HMRC’s new IR35 framework for 12 months, how are we going to measure if ‘better administration’ has been achieved?

ContractorCalculator: Contracting news in brief - 18/May/2012

News this week includes the latest IR35 insights; P35 advice; contractor demand data; partial financial sector recovery; & HMRC service improvements.

P35 guidance: unsure contractors should answer ‘no’ to service co question, says HMRC

Contractors are not legally obliged to answer the P35 question 6, ‘Are you a Service Company?’, and if they’re unsure should answer ‘no’.

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Will the new Enterprise Research Centre dedicated to SMEs recognise the role of contracting businesses in the economy? http://t.co/ACE31fIm
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How might government's 'secret plan' to link civil service earnings to location affect public sector contractor rates? http://t.co/fJClb0HG
Sun, 20 May 2012