Search Results

10 actions you can take to help you avoid a tax investigation
Contractors are often targeted for HMRC tax investigations. Here are ten actions you can take to reduce your chances of being one of the unlucky ones.
�phisticated resources, and the ongoing spectre of IR35 looming, HMRC is always looking for an excuse to� �ficially denied, experts suggest that HMRC’s IR35 contract review service acts as a source of leads and info�
Category: Articles: Tax Issues | Wed, 06 Jan 2016

Contractor doctor: does length or number of contracts affect IR35 status?
Does how long you work at a place, or the fact that you have several different contracts affect your status?
�would like to know if my position with regard to IR35 would change in this new situation. Obviously the� �d from April 05 to April 06 for a UK bank. Then I contracted from November 06 to November 07 for another UK ba� �Dear Contractor Doctor, I started contracting in 2005 and worked from April 05 to April 06 for� �ovember 07 for another UK bank. For both of these contracts I used an umbrella company. I now have the opport� �tracts you have, nor how long you work on a given contract. You could be inside IR35 on both contracts, or o�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Thu, 13 Dec 2007

Contractor doctor: can I get financial protection against an IR35 investigation?
How can a contractor protect themselves financially against an investigation.
�act tweaked by a law firm so that it appears more IR35 friendly. However, I am concerned that if HMRC ac� �Dear Contractor Doctor, I've had my contract tweaked by a law firm so that it appears more IR3�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Wed, 03 Jan 2007

Contractor doctor: can contractors take holidays when they want to?
This client has told the contractor that they cannot take off any time for holidays over the summer at all. Can they legally do this? Where does the contractor stand?
�a bit complicated because it involves issues like IR35 and right of substitution . The first issue is: w� �Dear Contractor Doctor, The client I’m contracting for had stated that until the current project goe� �egally actually force contractors to fulfil their contract every week day without taking time off? This seem�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Tue, 31 Jul 2007

Contractor Doctor:My agent is refusing to amend my contract – what are my options?
Agencies are often reluctant to change standard contracts as they see this as an unnecessary cost. However, contractors do have options.
�ed I make changes to the contract to make it more IR35 friendly. However, my agency refuses to make any� �eight in a tribunal or court. Good luck with your contracting! Contractor Doctor� �ed by a legal expert specialising in contractors’ contracts, but also for acting on the advice the lawyer has� �Dear Contractor Doctor, I am renewing my contract between my contractor limited company and agent.�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Thu, 04 Jun 2009

Contractor Doctor: No substitution but can hire subcontractor: what’s my IR35 status?
Contractors with client restrictions on rights of substitution may find hiring a subcontractor achieves the same goals.
�my place. This makes me slightly nervous about my IR35 status However, a contractor colleague has sugges� �e employed Andy Vessey, Qdos Consulting “In a contracting context, the work completed by the sub-contractor� �s’ claims to be working outside IR35 on their own contracts. The implication of the client saying ‘no substit� �hs. Although I have a right of substitution in my contract, my feeling is that the client would baulk at all�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Wed, 15 May 2013

Contractor Doctor: My client is offering employee-style perks – should I accept them?
Contractors should avoid including any elements in their contract that might suggest they are disguised employees, and may be affected.
�oncerned that some of the conditions might put my IR35 and ‘in business on my own account’ status in jeo� �ed the role by telephone, the company sent me the contract. I am concerned that some of the conditions might�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Thu, 10 Apr 2014

Contractor Doctor: Client wants to move me to a new project. I don’t want to. Help!
Contractors don’t have employment rights but are protected by contract law, so a client can’t change the contract without the contractor’s agreement.
�my original contract; surely this might affect my IR35 status? My client wants me on a new project and I� �ich is not the behaviour of a skilled independent contracting expert, but of an employee. This is likely to be� �s no legal requirement for the contractor to move contracts and start a new project. Without the contractor’s� �ed company, about two thirds of the way through a contract with a major financial institution. The client wa�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Wed, 13 Oct 2010

Contractor doctor: can I take my first contract at the company i'm planned on leaving?
Should you accept your first contract at the company you are leaving permanent employment to go contracting?
�f contracting, in terms of lack of politics, etc. IR35 - you will almost certainly be caught You will mo� �Dear Contractor Doctor I've decided to go contracting and handed in my notice at my current permanent e� �oyee wants to become a contractor and so offers a contract to hold onto them, be warned. It is of course a t�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Thu, 16 Aug 2018

Inside IR35? Get huge tax savings with a pension
If you are caught by it and currently do not have a pension, then you are missing out on huge tax savings.
�If you are caught by IR35 and currently do not have a pension you are missi�
Category: Articles: Pensions | Tue, 07 Apr 2009