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Negotiating your contract for IR35 compliance
If you have been offered a contract which is caught, or are in a contract that is caught you’ll need to consider negotiating changes to get it outside. We explain how.
�al it is in your interest to get yourself outside IR35 and avoid the financial impact of IR35 . Being ca� �ual for them to advertise contracts that are IR35 compliant as a selling point. In booming markets it is in t� �ctors and it is not unusual for them to advertise contracts that are IR35 compliant as a selling point. In bo� �Whether it is a new contract or a contract renewal it is in your interest to g�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Mon, 24 Apr 2006

What contractors need to know about IR35 compliant contracts
Contractors need to understand that no contract can in itself remove the threat of investigation from the Revenue.
�What contractors need to understand about IR35 compliant contracts is that there really aren’t a� �What contractors need to understand about IR35 compliant contracts is that there really aren’t any. The co� �ntractors need to understand about IR35 compliant contracts is that there really aren’t any. The contract is� �nt contracts is that there really aren’t any. The contract is only one factor considered when deciding if a�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Thu, 29 Jun 2017

Umbrella companies, IR35 compliance & HMRC approval – contractors should be cautious
You should beware of umbrellas claiming compliance, HMRC approval & special dispensations.
�ould be cautious of umbrella companies that claim IR35 compliance, HMRC approvals and special expenses d� �ing their services, contractors will remain ‘IR35 compliant’. To put this into context, limited company contr� �ella service providers fulfil a vital role in the contracting supply chain, ensuring a suitable trading vehicle� �run a limited company , or others who may be in a contract which they know to be inside IR35. However, some�
Category: Articles: Contractor umbrellas companies | Mon, 31 Jan 2011

Financial considerations when deciding to take a contract
Should you accept the offered contract or wait for a higher paid one to come along? Let's look at the numbers.
�For the moment, let's assume you pass the dreaded IR35 rules. So, £20 an hour yields a gross of around £� �le for £20 per hour, but the contract is not IR35 compliant. This means you will pay considerably more tax an� �hard earnt savings from all those previous years contracting have been used up. Well, something like that anyw� �ke that anyway! So, you start looking for another contract. After a few weeks, and hundreds of ignored phone�
Category: Articles: Job Search | Thu, 11 Jan 2018

What is a Key Information Document (KID)?
Contractors working ‘inside IR35’ under the Off-Payroll rules should expect to receive a KID from their agency at the beginning of each engagement.
�Contractors working ‘inside IR35’ under the Off-Payroll rules should expect to rec� �nd exposes any red flags indicating potential non-compliant tax treatment of their earnings. What should be i� �D) from their agency at the beginning of each new contract. A new initiative designed to deliver transparenc�
Category: Articles: Contracting | Tue, 19 Jan 2021

Contracting and the national minimum wage (NMW)
Limited company contractor directors are not affected by the national minimum wage, but umbrella contractors employed by their service provider are.
�ation. Umbrella company contractors employed by a compliant service provider are affected, and NMW applies. C� �excluded by the rules, so NMW does not apply Contracting businesses are typically highly cash generative f� �because if the umbrella is not compliant with its contracts, it may not be compliant in other ways. The situa� �e to go down this route, and set up an employment contract with their own business, NMW will apply If NMW ap�
Category: Articles: Limited Companies | Wed, 30 Apr 2014

Agencies can override incorrect Off-Payroll (IR35) status decisions by clients
The Off-Payroll legislation shows that agencies are free to override assessments made by clients, as Matt Boddington of Chartergates explains.
�made to a contractor’s limited company is if the IR35 legislation applies. “The legislation itself only� �and ‘reasonable care’ Agencies are urged to adopt compliant practices to overcome what Boddington considers t� �in a bizarre situation whereby they enter into a contract and are expected to abide by a status decision th�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Wed, 25 Jul 2018

Off-Payroll audit guide: How to avoid IR35 compliance risks in the supply chain
Hiring firms and recruiters must take careful measures to negate tax liability risk resulting from the Off-Payroll (IR35) debt transfer provisions.
�For hiring firms and their recruitment suppliers, IR35 status assessments and the tax treatment of contr� �m simply to ease its tax collecting task when non-compliant parties prove difficult to locate. Many have high� �that the provider isn’t considered for any future contracts offered. If a high-risk supplier was introduced t� �IR35 status assessments and the tax treatment of contract income aren’t the only issues to consider regardi�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Thu, 10 Sept 2020

Recruiters’ insistence that contractors use umbrella companies is breaching the law
Contractors assessed as ‘deemed employees’, and forced to work via umbrella companies by recruiters, have grounds to mount a strong legal challenge.
�ave decided to force those deemed within scope of IR35 to work via umbrella companies. This negates the� �siness face prosecution and consequent fines. Non-compliant recruiters fall foul of Conduct Regulations Valen� �inded to conduct due diligence when approaching a contract, and be aware of unfavourable or suspicious contr�
Category: Articles: First timers | Thu, 25 Oct 2018

Off-Payroll audit guide: How to use assessments to identify working practice pitfalls
Find out how contractor clients can harness IR35 assessments to mitigate IR35 risk by identifying and addressing common working practice pitfalls.
�Under the Off-Payroll rules, IR35 assessments are a legislative requirement to dete� �t an approach which enables you explore potential compliant ways to reduce IR35 risk across your workforce as� �ould have been caught by IR35 Attracting the best contracting talent to your firm/agency All of the administrat� �ting your workforce most. It does so by assessing contracts in relation to each specific IR35 status factor,� �se on employment tax liability Avoiding difficult contract renegotiations with contractors who otherwise wou�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Fri, 11 Sept 2020