It seems ( to me anyway ) that the main defence against IR35 is the aspect of risk. i.e. how much risk you as a business are undertaking in the endeavour.
Given this, is it not time for contractors to pay up-front "finders fees" to agents so we can sever our relationship with them earlier. We could charge the rate which the agent would get so we wouldn't neccesarily(sp) be out of pocket but we'd be taking on a big chunk of risk...
Obviously it would be better to not have to deal with agents at all but you'll run into them sooner or later
Thoughts?
Given this, is it not time for contractors to pay up-front "finders fees" to agents so we can sever our relationship with them earlier. We could charge the rate which the agent would get so we wouldn't neccesarily(sp) be out of pocket but we'd be taking on a big chunk of risk...
Obviously it would be better to not have to deal with agents at all but you'll run into them sooner or later
Thoughts?
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