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Quick Start Contracting Guide: The Agency Workers Regulations
ContractorCalculator’s Quick Start Guide to the Agency Workers Regulations provides answers to your most frequently asked questions about the law.
�et of ‘in-business’ tests, such as those used for IR35 , may help put many limited company contractors o� �le trader, it is completely irrelevant if you are contracting direct with your client. However, as the vast maj� �ith your client. However, as the vast majority of contracts in some sectors, such as IT, are via agencies, th� �n permanent employees or offshoring temporary and contract roles to cheaper jurisdictions unaffected by AWR.�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Thu, 21 Sept 2017

What a client needs to know about contract law
Contractors are not like employees and don’t have employment contracts. But they do have contracts, so clients need to understand contract law basics.
�find that contractors want to make the contract ‘ IR35 friendly’. This usually involves adding clauses a� �nd the contractor or agency. If the contractor is contracting direct, the client will have the contract with th� �es. This will help them prevent any disputes over contracts escalating, as they’ll know when to call in exper� �Having an understanding of the principles of contract law is essential for clients hiring contractors.�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 13 Oct 2009

Hiring contractors – an overview
Contractors can bring huge benefits to a client organisation but they are not employees and need to be managed effectively to get best results.
�lationship between the client and the contractor. IR35 and payment Contractors will ask clients for a nu� �ctors predominantly use online job boards to find contracts, but there the similarity with employees ends. Co� �ensed, because good contractors don’t stay out of contract for long, so a client only has a small window whe�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 25 Aug 2009

Contractor interview: paul ross enjoys the good life contracting
An extraordinarily successful contractor who only works at the top of the fee scale, and who almost never uses an agent, tells how to do it.
�has about 500 clients. Using Substitution Against IR35 Another way in which Ross has usefully networked� �ders. This kind of work is at the very top of the contracting scale, and is much in demand. But Ross has noneth� �rom colleagues. This has put me in touch with new contracts very regularly. A good network of colleagues can� �ine this carefully to see that it is both in your contract, but also part of your real working life. ''What�
Category: Articles: Contractor Interviews | Mon, 14 Apr 2008

Contractor Doctor’s recent legal challenges facing contractors
Contractor Calculator’s Contractor Doctor summarises the top legal challenges & solutions that contractors recently faced and overcame.
�s Clients thinking that contractors are employees IR35 Employment law. Contract restrictions – restricti� �. We answered them all and have published over 56 contracting guides so far this year. To help the wider contra� �s, which are typically found in contractor agency contracts, play an important role in protecting the investm� �to date. They broadly fall into five main themes: Contract restrictions – restrictive covenants Contractual�
Category: Articles: Legal | Thu, 12 Sept 2013

10 top tips for expats going contracting in the UK
Contractors from outside the UK and EU going contracting in the UK can benefit from ten lessons in making sure their contracting career is a success.
�eir contracts reviewed by legal professionals for IR35 implications, and to ensure the contractual terms� �and European Union and are thinking of starting a contracting career in the UK can benefit from ten top tips on� �t it is not the best contractors who get the best contracts, but those contractors who are best at winning co� �market demand for particular skills, identifying contract opportunities and ruthlessly converting opportuni�
Category: Articles: Expat | Fri, 12 Jun 2009

Off-payroll repeal praised by Australian self-employed advocate, Ken Phillips
The signalled repeal of Off-Payroll tax rules by the new Chancellor is an exercise in common sense, says Ken Philips, of Self-employed Australia
�strong focus on tax fairness. Ken has studied the IR35 issue since 2000. Ken shares his views on the rec� �stralian Independent Contractors Act (2006), sham contract prevention laws and Unfair Contract laws for self�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Wed, 28 Sept 2022

How to appeal wrongful tax treatment following an incorrect Off-Payroll assessment
Tax expert David Kirk explains the various options available to contractors seeking to reclaim tax that has been overpaid as a result of Off-Payroll.
�a result of being incorrectly assessed as ‘inside IR35’ under the new Off-Payroll tax have options shoul� �to ensure that they don’t unwittingly enter into contracts with clauses permitting these deductions. Right n� �ave had employer’s NI deductions taken from their contract rates by hirers and agencies since the introducti�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Tue, 07 Aug 2018

Managed Service Company (MSC) legislation – key guide for contractors and agencies
Contractors using managed service companies are taxed as employees. Debt transfer rules allow HMRC to ask agencies/clients for contractors’ tax owed.
�company. As the MSC legislation is distinct from IR35 , it means that a contractor’s contract could be� �n providers’ websites. Contractor tests to see if contracting service providers are managed service company pro� �and bank accounts The service provider negotiates contracts with end-user clients and agencies without includ� �distinct from IR35 , it means that a contractor’s contract could be outside IR35 but they could still be pay�
Category: Articles: Managed Service Companies | Mon, 22 Aug 2011

How contractors should handle contract renewals
Contractors are never obliged to accept contract renewals. Feel free to negotiate a new contract, and never accept an agent's telling you that you have some obligation resulting from the previous contract.
�ment is to offer to 'make the contract outside of IR35 .' This is one bait that you should probably not� �, in time. Contractors are never obliged to renew contracts David Royden-Laytons Solicitors Start Negotiating� �es,'' says David Royden, a lawyer specialising in contract law with Laytons Solicitors in Manchester. No Leg�
Category: Articles: Legal | Tue, 03 Jul 2007