contracting at government

**MercladUK** · 24 August 2015, 16:10

Originally posted by slogger View Post

Peeps,

I've tried googling this but getting a myriad of conflicting results.

I've been offered a good contract working in a government dept through a software consultancy - I'll be contracting via my own Ltd co.

Has anyone had any issue re paying themselves dividends etc - I'm asking as my senile brain vaguely recalls there being some news about this a while ago (for the BBC maybe?) - where staff where working via a ltd co and heard there may have been some restrictions put in place to make contractors go PAYE if working at Gov body?

Thanks!

Slogger

Just like any other gig

Get your contract (probably CL1) reviewed and working practices. QDOS do a nice government pack with a certificate after review, which I use.

**northernladuk** · 24 August 2015, 16:21

Are you contracted to the Gov body through an agent and possibly though Capita CL1 or are you contracted to a software consultancy that then supply the Gov body a service? i.e are you a contractor bum on seat or part of delivering a solution by a 3rd party supplier.

If it's through a CL1 I would have said walk away unless it's a corker of a gig but all that will change soon...

**northernladuk** · 24 August 2015, 16:23

This is a question about contract so might have been better in the Business/Contracting section. There is a sticky about contracting in the public sector in there for you to read. It's a doozy though...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...ntracting.html

**administrator** · 24 August 2015, 23:38

Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

This is a question about contract so might have been better in the Business/Contracting section. There is a sticky about contracting in the public sector in there for you to read. It's a doozy though...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...ntracting.html

Moved!

**slogger** · 25 August 2015, 07:32

Originally posted by administrator View Post

Moved!

thanks for moving - apologies for wrong thread - my mind was thinking of money/law so wrongly assumed accounting/legal.

thanks to everyone for their responses, had a good look at thread.

I'm not going via capita etc, its a smallish consultancy - I 'think' I should be ok, bit that worried me was a section in contract that stated :

'the supplier undertakes that all remuneration constitute and will be treated as employment income for income tax purposes'.

From an IR35 perspective contract looks ok - i.e no moo, no effective notice, right of substitution, no direction etc etc

I will be getting someone like QDOS to give contract a quick once over, I've also asked the consultancy what they mean by this line.

contracting at government