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    Legitimacy of this model post April

    Contractor< "consultancy" < "client"

    Where the consultancy has SOW, fixed deliverables/price etc with the client. Consultancy pays contractor a day rate is not a permanent employee. Contractor performs delivery of services on client site.

    Client is big. Ie over 50 employees and 10M turnover
    Consultancy is small and under these.

    So working practices are outside. But who is the client and who should be making the determination post April?

    (Or is the scenerio exempt from determination as the consultancy is in effect the client and is small)
    Last edited by MrC; 13 November 2019, 07:01.

    #2
    End client

    Have you been living under a bridge ?




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      #3
      I'm not convinced it's as straightforward as you're suggesting.

      Let's say our client in my scenerio is an insurance company who sell motor insurance to the public. Well then Joe Smith with his beemer is the end client by some definition. Does he make the determination.

      Moreover a consultancy isn't subject to it35 with the end client so what makes this a given?

      Would be really helpful if you could explain the basis of your conclusion. What are the criteria for "end client"

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        #4
        The end client can be assessed as being the ultimate entity in the chain asking for a provision of labour.

        If company A has a development need and asks company B to provide labour resource to facilitate the delivery of the whole project, or areas thereof then company A is the end client.

        If, however company A outsources the delivery of the project, or areas thereof to company B AND it is up to company B to decide on resource levels and source that labour needed then company B should be considered to be the end client.

        In the second scenario, company A is the consumer and company B is producing the product that company A consumes.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Patrick@Intouch View Post
          The end client can be assessed as being the ultimate entity in the chain asking for a provision of labour.

          If company A has a development need and asks company B to provide labour resource to facilitate the delivery of the whole project, or areas thereof then company A is the end client.

          If, however company A outsources the delivery of the project, or areas thereof to company B AND it is up to company B to decide on resource levels and source that labour needed then company B should be considered to be the end client.

          In the second scenario, company A is the consumer and company B is producing the product that company A consumes.
          Thanks Patrick - that's the clearest explanation I've come across so far.
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            #6
            Originally posted by Patrick@Intouch View Post
            The end client can be assessed as being the ultimate entity in the chain asking for a provision of labour.

            If company A has a development need and asks company B to provide labour resource to facilitate the delivery of the whole project, or areas thereof then company A is the end client.

            If, however company A outsources the delivery of the project, or areas thereof to comapny B AND it is up to company B to decide on resource levels and source that labour needed then company B should be considered to be the end client.

            In the second scenario, company A is the consumer and company B is producing the product that comapny A consumes.
            So company B can be 3 friends that form a company together that all worked for company A currently but now for company B to avoid IR35 ?

            Fill our boots time


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              #7
              Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View Post
              So company B can be 3 friends that form a company together that all worked for company A currently but now for company B to avoid IR35 ?

              Fill our boots time


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              Not quite, if those three friends were still engaging with clients in the same way then the same rules would still apply to each engagement. If that company however were engaged to deliver a product or specified deliverable and could use any of the "in-house" resource at its disposal (or engage other resource at its discretion) then that would certainly look like an engagement of a true B2B nature and not a contract for service.

              However, that same scenario would apply no matter the number of friends or director/shareholders.

              I think the point really is that company B in my example would be a business providing a service not a business providing labour and the key then might be negotiating contract between a PSC and a service consumer that allows the PSC to deliver that service using whatever resource that company deems most appropriate, whether that be the director or A.N. Other. That would remove personal service from the equation and strongly suggest that IR35 shouldn't be applied to that engagement.

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                #8
                Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View Post
                So company B can be 3 friends that form a company together that all worked for company A currently but now for company B to avoid IR35 ?

                Fill our boots time


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                The answer to this question seems to discourage doing that:

                Contractors’ Questions: Will a partnership get around IR35 reform in 2020?
                • The meaning of life is to give life meaning
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by MrC View Post
                  I'm not convinced it's as straightforward as you're suggesting.

                  Let's say our client in my scenerio is an insurance company who sell motor insurance to the public. Well then Joe Smith with his beemer is the end client by some definition. Does he make the determination.
                  I'm not sure you have the slightest clue what you are talking about.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View Post
                    So company B can be 3 friends that form a company together that all worked for company A currently but now for company B to avoid IR35 ?

                    Fill our boots time


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                    From the document QDOS sent out last month:

                    CAN CONTRACTORS JOIN FORCES TO
                    AVOID THE NEW RULES?
                    Many contractors have considered closing their business and collaborating with other
                    contractors to ‘club together’, forming new companies to get around the new rules.
                    We stress that attempting to avoid a tax avoidance measure is unadvisable and this will not
                    enable contractors to achieve the desired outcome.
                    IR35 applies if:
                    • a worker (or their family), control more than 5% of the ordinary share capital
                    of the Personal Service Company; OR
                    • a worker (or their family) are entitled to receive more than 5% of any
                    dividends from the Personal Service Company: OR
                    • a worker receives, or could receive, payments or benefits from their company
                    which are not salary but could reasonably be taken to represent payment for
                    services they provide to clients.
                    While there is no clear definition of a Personal Service Company (PSC), which
                    HMRC often use to their advantage, this can be loosely defined as:
                    • a company that predominantly sells the services of an individual, or small
                    group of individuals, and
                    • the individual(s) providing the services are also owners/directors of the
                    company.
                    If a group of PSCs came together to form a new business this will not avoid IR35 and it will
                    still need to be a consideration for each contractor working within the new company - IR35
                    could still apply to each worker.
                    Therefore, simply pulling together to form a new business will not avoid IR35

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