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Dividends – calculation, payment and taxation
Contractors using limited company structures can get significant tax advantages by paying themselves dividends. This article explains how dividends work.
�out a dividend to the shareholders. Dividends and IR35 Most contractors using a limited company operate� �idends has been updated. Please see Dividends and contracting : calculation, payment and taxation . Introductio�
Category: Articles: Limited Companies | Wed, 09 Aug 2006

Advice on buying an IR35 free contract
Is it worth spending money on buying an 'IR35 Free Contract' ?
�e are a number of organisations offering to sell ‘IR35 proof ' contracts to contractors. This article ex� �r of organisations offering to sell ‘IR35 proof ' contracts to contractors. This article explains why there i� �s. There is no such thing as a standard IR35 free contract A contract between your company and the agency mu�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Thu, 23 Mar 2000

How to pass IR35 and save thousands by convincing clients to allow substitution
An exercised right of substitution (RoS) clause is the IR35 silver bullet you need to pass IR35. Here's how to get clients to allow it.
�To have a cast iron gaurantee of avoiding IR35 an exercised Right of Substitution is the ultimat� �s where this will be fruitless. Some clients have contracts with the agencies that will never pass IR35 and c� �itution is the ultimate factor. The clause in the contract must be worded correctly to ensure any substituti�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Mon, 14 Nov 2016

Using a right of substitution in contracts will help prove outside IR35 status
A valid right of substitution clause in contracts is a great defence of your outside IR35 status
�r contracts to try to ensure remaining outside of IR35. If you are providing a service, and not employme� �d include a right of substitution clause in their contracts to try to ensure remaining outside of IR35. If yo� �000 many contractors have managed to negotiate a "contract for services" with their clients, and this has in�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Thu, 15 Dec 2016

Contractor Doctor: If I sign a confidentiality agreement in my name am I inside IR35?
Contractors asked to sign confidentiality agreements in their name, and not their limited company’s, are unlikely to be at risk.
�with a new client. I had my contract checked for IR35 by a consultant and it received the all-clear. Bu� �a confidentiality agreement. Good luck with your contracting! Contractor Doctor� �rganisation and therefore not bound by employment contracts. Clients can’t change contractual terms, in theor� �ctor and I’ve just started work on a six-month IT contract with a new client. I had my contract checked for�
Category: Articles: Contractor Doctor Q+A | Mon, 31 Jan 2011

Contractor guide to answering the self-assessment tax return service company question
Contractors should answer the tax return’s service company question as leaving it out can bring unwelcome attention, warns ClearSky’s Daniel Mepham.
�with targeting contractors who may be subject to IR35 ,” he continues. “However, HMRC has many other re� �can demonstrate that IR35 does not apply to their contract can close an IR35 review before it gets off the g�
Category: Articles: Tax Issues | Wed, 16 Jan 2013

Self assessment tax for contractors - 7 things you need to know
A guide to the annual self assessment tax return for contractors.
�due 31 July 2016 £5,000 4. Contractors caught by IR35 If you are caught by IR35, then your self assessm�
Category: Articles: Tax Issues | Sun, 25 Sept 2016

Making tax efficient use of excess company profits
Discusses the tax effective options and issues for utilising excess company profits?
�is dissolved. This article discusses the issues. IR35 Factors This question is only relevant when you a�
Category: Articles: Limited Companies | Mon, 30 Oct 2006

IR35 avoidance: Staying outside if you go contracting for your former employer
When contracting for a former employer, you must prove your new relationship is different.
�face a very real threat of being found inside of IR35 , says Kate Cottrell of contractor IR35 consultan� �ible for a contractor to remain outside IR35 when contracting for a former employer, but they have to work that� �ment. In such cases, she is often asked to review contracts and the working practices to create a bespoke con� �ployer, or being asked to return immediately on a contract basis after redundancy, face a very real threat o�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Thu, 08 Apr 2010

How to prove IR35 does not apply to you
Want to prove IR35 does not apply to you? Learn the evidence to collect during a contract that will bat away the taxman.
�prove, as best as one can, that they are outside IR35 . Should HMRC conduct a tax inspection and disput� �e by HMRC. Why? Because judges can now simply put contracts aside if they consider them a sham and make a dec� �ally resides in showing that you acted during the contract period in certain ways. Since the Autoclenz judge�
Category: Articles: IR35 | Tue, 05 Dec 2017