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Ideally you don't want to work with an agent, as I'm yet to find one that isn't capable of doing stupid things without warning

Yep - the accountant bill alone for multi-jurisdiction VAT filing means this isn't going to be a take £10 a day from my mate for letting him use my tools agreement

The only three people who assure you that you are outside IR35 are

1) HMRC - and they are biased
2) You - having objectively assessed the rules and working practices - and you are biased
3) AN...

If you are not a UK resident and have certain forms of overseas income the online system doesn't support it, so you need the paper version.

To the OP, whilst the HMRC online system doesn't support...

I haven't personally made the transition, as I've never done a "bum on seat" contract. All my contracts are scoped project deliveries where our company takes on the legal responsibility to deliver...

I would quibble it in an existing contract, in a new contract I'd accept its the cost of taking the business, but for an existing contract with no mention then I'd argue the toss or get them to up my...

I mean if you are on £250 a day maybe your client will put up with you being that inadequate, but for those of us on proper day rates if you take longer than 2 weeks to become properly useful you...

Good luck with the move.

I do have to point out though that pension Auto Enrollment doesn't cost us any more than our previous voluntary contribution to our staff pensions and it takes at most 5...

I mean I think both XERO and Sage would disagree

Free Agent acquired by Nat West in 2017 for £53m
XERO current market cap £360m
Sage current market cap £6.4 Bn

So I very much doubt freeagent...

Working hard is a bad way to compare jobs. He might just be much better at the job than your wife and therefore find it really easy. He may have lower standards and not care about reputation thereby...

The interesting question here is did they make you redundent correctly? The fact they still need you suggests they haven't made the role redundant and that maybe they acted incorrectly in canning...

In theory I can live on £1500 a month if several expenses are paid by someone else. I could possibly take it down to below £1000 if my sugar-daddy covering those several expenses got his fingered out...

I've been contracted for best part of 20 years, I've never had a contract that isn't at least 30 day payment terms, almost all tended to push to 38/39 days - 7 day payment terms, what are you an Uber...

They can, they just don't (as it would cost too much)

It's perfectly OK to provide a director with the kit to make phone calls for their business. They can opt to put whatever SIM in that phone they want, they can only reclaim the cost of the airtime...

Your statement shows a massive misunderstanding of dividends,

You cannot intend to declare a dividend. If you wish to declare a dividend, you have to hold a shareholder meeting, table the motion...

Many of my contracts are for specialist services for a few days/weeks to support other consulting companies do stuff they don't have people qualified to do.

On some of these contracts the day rate...

I'm not sure why they are using a calculation anyway, it looks like they are on "full-furlough" and not the part-time furlough option. In which case the government have built a calculator for...

Have you ever watched Erin Brokovitch?

The UK Government has a similar defacto response to PG&E (except PG&E actually wrote to claimants telling them No), ignore the first request, think about it...

I'm the opposite. A UK citizen, but have previously resided (as PR) in AUS and will be going back very soon (as PR still - and citizen eventually)

Now if I take (in 20+ years) my lump sum from the...

May well be something like undeclared dividends being classified as a directors loan or something like that

The number you need is 101 from any phone.

This will connect you to the Police non-emergency incident line.

Here you can ask them how they can help get those compromising nudes the "foreign...

I so remember the ice-rink and the inebriated office workers (me included) - happy days!

I've never personally used a Director's Loan so this is from theory not experience.

It is my understanding that whilst a DL repaid within 9 months of the company year end doesn't need to incur...

Seems like an unnecessary and difficult task

Assuming they where under 41, had worked for their company for 10 years and paid in line with usual contractor rates the maximum stat redundancy is...

Whilst I broadly agree with the other comments about creative accounting and playing fast and loose with tax rules, isn't this all actually irrelevant given the statement "hence provided her a P45"
...

Absolutely correct; my question for the OP is if you didn't know this I'd suggest that even taking into accout your previous education you probably aren't up-to-date enough with accounting rules to...

I'd argue that advice has to be given (or else it isn't advice it's just knowledge they know that you haven't been given)

So if you have been getting this for 18 months and not querying it /...

Yep - Oil all the way (with the occasional other natural resource exploration gig)

I can't say that I'd noticed. It's been a busy time in my industry all the way through this process and we can't hire contractors quick enough. Have you thought maybe it's not the market, maybe it's...

The bigger question is how did you think the Oil business was "winding down" - I work in that area and contracting has been white hot since 2014/5

You've got your figures wrong.

So how it works for us
So let's take a typical contrator PAYE salary at £792/month.
- Get the scheme with 33% of the time worked. So get £261/month from LTD
-...

We don't know that they haven't got another GIG lined up already, they don't say...

Of course if eberyone takes the "little man" option and says well "ok, you can give me a rate cut and I'll just...

You don't need to pay a salary, but if you do it will require a contract of employment (payments from a company without an employment contract are either drawings or dividends).

If you do pay a...

It would be rather pointless if the vetting process for an SC contract (that no-one is supposed to know you hold technically) left a marker on your accessible credit file.

They do a search but it...

Take some legal advice as well around taxation, the fact you are taking share options in lieu of salary means there are tax implications due at the point of award, regardless of whether the options...

Cool - if you know the potential pitfalls and your main employer doesn't have an issue then that changes it.

Normally it would be pointless to do a LTD company for 30K yearly income as the whole...

Does this side-gig have any resemblance to the work you do in your day job? If so I would suggest you have a very good word with your companies HR and employment lawyers, they are likely to go mental...

It isn't a tax code for the employee, its the PAYE scheme number for the employer paying your wage (company, umbrella or your limited co. depending on how you get paid)

In the olden days the...

I can already tell you the outcome, anyone who completes the process gets added to the framework, which makes it pretty useless as a portal. There are about 30 providers that 90% of the work goes to,...

Just not true, almost all DMP awards got to the big 10 players (Big 4 plus TCS, G4S, Detica etc...)

An independent without lots of training in how to write DMP bids will almost certainly never get...

Because in his case maybe the wife is entirely fictitious and he assumes we are all like him?

Also depends on the likeliness of a marriage breakdown, passing 90% to essentially the "silent partner" in the business means they get 90% if they decide to wind it up

I'm shocked people are saying £750 p/day for Docker, it's a commodity skill that a decent first year could pick up in about 2 weeks (I've seen many do it).

A perm equivalent rate for a docker...

I've had work from the framework, it helps if you can frame your services in the way a consultancy would and if you can offer more than just a bum-on-seat programmer or analyst resource. You need to...

In answer to the question "when will I get paid?" I can't give a better answer than two you have already had.

1) It depends
2) What does the contract say

I can give some examples though:
...

You are right - most inside roles are farmed out to hayes or something like that and so hit the monster/jobserve route instead

Have you been on G-Cloud before? I have been for 4 years through my own limited company and for 3 years before that I managed the G-Cloud sourcing and application for one of the Big-4 (as well as...

I've always found it quite ironic that the Government seems determined to shut down contracting and force everyone down the IR35/inside route; yet the official job-board of givernment and the public...

Based on what they say about it being a Big 4 they won't.

It sets a huge precedent - he will have to dispose/purchase the car legally as soon as possible