Not too happy with my agency arrangement tonight so got me thinking....
Many people here have commented on a separate thread that the current Govt review of IR35 may well lead to clients just saying basically "you're all inside IR35 from now on" rather than deal with the bother of sussing out who is and who isn't.
However, it occurs to me that if you are contracted direct to the end client then that relationship is no different to a commercial contract to supply multiple bodies that a large consultancy may have with the client. For example KPMG can have a contract with Tesco to provide a ton of auditors or whatever and YourCo can have a contract with them to provide one person - you. However the main tenets of the contract would necessarily be similar. So all the KPMG bods are employees of KPMG and can't pay tax twice so IR35 hokey cokey couldn't be relevant.
It just seems that agency contractors will be the easiest and earliest pickings.
This is all assuming that IR35 rules are simplified and clear and that those of us not currently inside it somehow become inside by virtue of the fact that we use the same carpet as employees or drink from the same water fountain.....you know they are desperate to call us all disguised employees even if the reality is that I've had my rate cut overnight twice in 6 months due to recession in oil industry and not a single employee at ClientCo has had likewise without a lengthy consultation period with HR and a lot of compensation.....and don't get me started on staff benefits, holiday pay, sick pay....
Many people here have commented on a separate thread that the current Govt review of IR35 may well lead to clients just saying basically "you're all inside IR35 from now on" rather than deal with the bother of sussing out who is and who isn't.
However, it occurs to me that if you are contracted direct to the end client then that relationship is no different to a commercial contract to supply multiple bodies that a large consultancy may have with the client. For example KPMG can have a contract with Tesco to provide a ton of auditors or whatever and YourCo can have a contract with them to provide one person - you. However the main tenets of the contract would necessarily be similar. So all the KPMG bods are employees of KPMG and can't pay tax twice so IR35 hokey cokey couldn't be relevant.
It just seems that agency contractors will be the easiest and earliest pickings.
This is all assuming that IR35 rules are simplified and clear and that those of us not currently inside it somehow become inside by virtue of the fact that we use the same carpet as employees or drink from the same water fountain.....you know they are desperate to call us all disguised employees even if the reality is that I've had my rate cut overnight twice in 6 months due to recession in oil industry and not a single employee at ClientCo has had likewise without a lengthy consultation period with HR and a lot of compensation.....and don't get me started on staff benefits, holiday pay, sick pay....
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