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Contractor Doctor: Is it worth starting a limited company for one contract?
Starting a limited company for a single contract can benefit contractors able to split dividends with a spouse, but for most will be uneconomical.
�oice, contractors need to consider issues such as IR35 status, their longer-term career strategy, whethe� �ne contract? Thanks Sarah Contractor Doctor says: Contracting through a limited company can be a tax-efficient� �s, I’ve been offered the opportunity to work on a contract basis on a year-long project. Despite researching�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Tue, 26 Oct 2010

International contracting and IR35
Where you pay taxes determines whether or not you have to worry. If you pay in the UK, then you have to worry.
�IR35 questions when contracting abroad: Are you tax-li� �IR35 questions when contracting abroad: Are you tax-liable in the UK? When do you� �business? An IR35 assessment can be made based on contracts drawn up anywhere in the world Simon Sweetman Any� �your limited company back home? Does your foreign contract address the IR35 issues? If you are not tax-liabl�
Category: Articles: Contracting Overseas | Wed, 30 Jan 2008

Off-Payroll audit guide: How to identify and address IR35 risk before April 2021
An early evaluation of your contingent workforce is needed to help identify and address common IR35 risk factors in advance of April 2021.
�partners, clients are advised to conduct an early IR35 status evaluation of their contingent workforce.� �le. This means locating the upper and lower-level contracts for each role, as well as gathering information a� �assessment into three sections pertaining to the contract, the working conditions, and the contractor. Each�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Wed, 02 Sept 2020

Contractors assessed ‘inside IR35’ could claim rights under AWR, says lawyer
Contractors subject to blanket ‘inside IR35’ assessments have a strong case for rights under the Agency Workers Regulations, says Martyn Valentine.
�Contractors subject to blanket ‘inside IR35’ assessments by clients in response to the Off-Pa� �individual is not an agency worker if there is a contract, by virtue of which the individual is available t�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Wed, 01 Apr 2020

Contractors encouraged to weigh up risk and reward of ‘outside IR35’ indemnities
Indemnities could help contractors secure ‘outside IR35’ contracts, providing they take care to ensure Off-Payroll compliance and mitigate their risk.
�as a means of engaging contractors on an ‘outside IR35’ basis. However, while this arrangement is provid� �are increasingly inserting indemnity clauses into contracts as a means of engaging contractors on an ‘outside� �t, contractors are warned that any ‘outside IR35’ contract containing an indemnity clause should be approach�
Category: Articles: Off-Payroll (IR35) Reforms | Tue, 04 Jan 2022

Contracting and Personal Liability Notices (PLNs) from HMRC: a contractor guide
Contractors whose limited company has unpaid NICs can be found personally liable if HMRC believes the debts arose through directors’ neglect or fraud.
�Contractors may be vulnerable to PLNs because of IR35 Contractors found to be inside IR35 and facing a� �the case of IR35, a contractor might seek an IR35 contract review from an expert who suggests that the contr�
Category: Articles: Tax Issues | Thu, 28 Apr 2011

Contractor doctor: does contracting on stand-by put me inside IR35?
Accepting a retainer payment for stand-by status has nothing to do with employment status.
�eptance of a standby rate would mean being inside IR35? Does paying a retainer mean that the client cont� �eep me available between dates of actual offshore contracting, but I'm permitted to work for other companies du� �Dear Contractor Doctor: I have a contract proposal for working offshore with a particular c�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Tue, 22 Apr 2008

Contractor doctor: why can't I use the company canteen?
Contractors can't expect to use the company canteen or to enjoy other employee rights because they risk falling inside.
�away food in the area. I've read about one of the IR35 tests being "Part and Parcel of the Organisation,� �decision as soon as possible. Good luck with your contracting! Contractor Doctor� �permanent employees, and make sure that both your contract as well as your actual day-to-day activities show�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Mon, 26 Nov 2007

Contractor doctor: if I contract at a former employers can I claim for travel?
Should your former employer offer you a contract, you still have all the rights contractors are entitled to. But you have to be very careful about status.
�ractor. But you run great risk of being caught by IR35 . As you say yourself, you are doing your old job� �advice if that is your plan. Good luck with your contracting! Contractor Doctor� �oject work which is carefully spelled out in your contracts, you could probably stay outside IR35. But you sh� �but after just three months I have been offered a contract position at my previous company (doing my old job�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Thu, 06 Mar 2008

Contractor doctor: do I have to pay employers and employees NI when using an umbrella?
Do you have to pay employers NI out of your contracting income? The answer is yes or no, depending on IR35 status and public/private sector working.
�r contracting rate. Contractors operating outside IR35 In this instance the client pays the agency the "� �Dear Contractor Doctor, I've just started contracting and have registered with an umbrella company. I w� �come taxes. This is the equation for outside IR35 contracts: Client charge rate = contract rate + agency comm� �storically it is worth noting that all advertised contract rates have been advertised at what we will call t�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Wed, 21 Feb 2007