Contractor umbrella companies: find true costs with ContractorCalculator’s checklist

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ContractorCalculator offers a detailed checklist so you can find out if a contractor umbrella company offers a genuine, compliant umbrella employment solution for the advertised price.

With so many contractor umbrella company solution providers, how can you tell which one will best fulfil your employment, payroll and trading needs? Some umbrella companies grab your attention with compelling claims of low rates (or even no rates) and high take-home pay, but don’t tell you the complete story. Others turn out not even to be umbrella companies, but offshore tax solutions. And it is common for them to leave out the cost of ‘extras’ – often things contractors consider ‘essentials’ – to artificially inflate potential earnings.

That’s why ContractorCalculator has created its exclusive Contractor Umbrella Pricing – Costs to Consider checklist, so you can be sure you have asked your next potential umbrella employer all the right questions. You can either send the checklist out and ask umbrella companies to fill in the boxes, or use it to jog your memory when talking to a provider or researching online.

To download the checklist choose right click on your mouse and select 'Save Target As...'.

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Published: Monday, March 22, 2010

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