On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:55:40PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote: > It is a debatable point these days whether it is is still actually worth > while becoming a contractor. The only way it is likely to to work for > you is if you truely are an independant entity; i.e. IR35 does not apply > to you (or rather: you pass the tests in it that say it doesn't apply).
What part of "I don't give a monkeys about IR35 as I have no intention of being an evil tax-evader" did you not understand? :-) It's still worthwhile in that it's better than doing nothing. Whilst I have savings to last me at least another couple of months without working, I'd really rather not eat in to them, and anyway, if I don't do something productive I'll go mad. > If you want to be a body for hire you lose most of the benefits of being > employed (paid holiday, sick pay, paid training etc) and you are now > still taxed as though you were still employed. So charge them more to make up for the lack of holiday and sickness payment. I don't see the problem here. -- David Cantrell | Degenerate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons
