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Contracting mindset tips: failure to consider the opportunity cost can be expensive
Contractors are often tempted to take contract offers below what they’re worth, but the opportunity cost can end up being more expensive than waiting.
�ailing to consider the opportunity costs of their contracting options may be making costly business decisions.� �a little short-sighted. If you have been between contracts for a few weeks and agents know this, expect offe� �s are tough. But the cost of taking a poorly paid contract can prove to have been an expensive mistake month�
Category: Articles: Contracting Mindset Tips | Fri, 23 Dec 2011

Contracting mindset tips: you can only send a sick note to yourself
Contractors who can’t work because they are ill can only send a sick note to one employer, which is their own limited company, not their client.
�for your company. If you are too ill to find new contracts, it is not the agency’s or client’s responsibilit� �k note to yourself, pay yourself sick pay and use contract law to explain to the client why you could not co�
Category: Articles: Contracting Mindset Tips | Thu, 06 Mar 2014

Contracting mindset tips: save money for sickness, holidays and time out of contract
Clients only pay contractors when they are delivering a service and, unlike employers, do not include paid sick days and holiday as part of the deal.
�expect to pay for services delivered When you go contracting, you become a service provider, just like your ga� �f for holidays or when you’re not working between contracts. Would you pay £300 to watch daytime TV? If your�
Category: Articles: Contracting Mindset Tips | Mon, 31 Oct 2016

Contractor banking: choosing a business bank account
Contractors who have decided to trade through a limited company must apply for a separate business bank account for their contracting business.
�any must set up a separate bank account for their contracting business , and may choose from a range of busines� �r contractors who are due to commence their first contract at short notice and will need to provide a proof�
Category: Articles: Contractor banking | Mon, 08 Aug 2016

What is a ‘dependent contractor’? – The Taylor Review
The Taylor Review proposes the introduction of a ‘dependent contractor’. Find out what this means and how else the Review could affect contracting.
�ployers can’t hide behind substitution clauses in contracts . Instead he says more weight should be placed on� �Review could have multiple repercussions for the contract sector, both good and bad: The Review could spell�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Tue, 18 Jul 2017

Contractors need the IR35 confirmation letter
Getting a confirmation of terms letter from the client could save you endless trouble and expense if you need to prove that you are outside.
�r decision to operate outside of IR35 on all your contracts. And it will definitely want to see the contracts� �for the past 6 years, you will have to show every contract with your agent or agents, and proof of what the�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Wed, 01 Feb 2017

Contracts alone won’t protect contractors from IR35
A contract between a contractor and a client is not necessarily a defence against a determined HMRC IR35 investigation.
�rnative Book Company . In that case, although the contracts stated that the contractor, Keith Shepherd, had t� �A contract between a contractor and a client is not necessar�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Wed, 12 Apr 2017

The 5 step IR35 defence before signing the contract
Follow these 5 easy steps before signing and starting your contract to ensure IR35 does not apply to you.
�IR35 tax investigation is before you start every contract Here are the key steps to preparing an IR35 defen�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Tue, 18 Apr 2017

Contractors must not be 'part and parcel' of clients to avoid IR35
One of the tests used to prove employment status is being 'part and parcel' of an organisation. You should avoid this at all cost.
�this is strictly related to the project you have contracted for. In general, it is best to avoid written mate� �nd that HMRC can seek you out six years after the contract is over and accuse you of owing back taxes and in�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Tue, 25 Apr 2017

How your accountant can keep you outside IR35
The expected private sector rollout of the IR35 reforms poses a unique threat to contractors but your accountant should be able to help. Here’s how.
�ector rollout would mean, regardless of where you contract, that the IR35 compliance burden rests with ill-i�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Tue, 30 May 2017