Posts by Velv 2756 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
No, according to HMRC guidelines the number of clients makes little difference, it is the working conditions at each client that determine the status.
If you are named, if they tell you what to do, when, and where, then you are inside IR35. You could have 10 clients doing this and they would all be classed by HMRC as inside. It is slightly more nuanced than this, some of the criteria are woolly, or difficult to prove, hence the confusion.
Sucks, I agree, but unfortunately I don’t have influence on HMRC..
Barclays aren’t trying to save money. They are attempting to minimise cost increase. They know costs are going up because of this Government initiative, by putting disguised employees through PAYE they put the bulk of the liability at the employee, not corporate.
Calm down and stop panicking, the market will very quickly balance itself out.
Some will go “permanent” (no such thing these days, redundancies abound), some will go umbrella/PAYE, some will hold out.
The more that hold out, the better. And being brutally honest, if you are a contractor bleating about it being unfair because you “take the risk”, well here is your risk - if your Consultancy can’t afford to bench you for a few months, you were probably a disguised employee and not a real contractor. “But margins...” - yes, margins are tight, but if you haven’t made provisions for a downturn in the market (or market rate), then you’re not a very good business person, are you? (And for the record, I am a contractor likely to be offered perm or PAYE. I have some training planned instead)
Go and read the Electoral Commission rules for votes in the UK, maybe other countries could replace a box, I'd suggest its next to impossible in the UK.
At every stage every candidate has their own representative present. They put their own seal on each ballot box, their representatives watch that box all day, confirm the seal is theirs as its opened, and observe the count. It would take substantial infiltration to every candidates party as well as the scrutineers to pull of any kind of swap, and that's not going to happen in the UK
"HMRC's crippling reliance on contractors, many of whom the department is helping to keep out of IR35"
HMRC should be required to publish the CEST materials for every one of these to confirm the tool gives the expected results. It can be done with redacted data, no need for names.
Or are all the "contractors" provided by one of the big consulting firms, the same consulting firms that advised HMRC that "small independent contractors are bad, here, we have lots of graduates consultants you can use at three times the day rate."
Remember this is Government and control must be maintained at all times.
All purchases must be made through the proper procurement channels from approved suppliers only. Suppliers can apply to be on the approved suppliers list by submitting their application to the procurement department whereupon it will be reviewed and approved over several lunches laid on by the supplier.
Once sufficiently wined and dined the procurement department will list the approved suppliers offerings on the Government procurement site at three times the street price.
So no, free certificates are certainly not going to be permitted.
Integrity
Fail fast, fail often. Except when you're dealing with transactions that must not fail and must have integrity.
People have gone to prison for "working around the technology" in the regulated industry, if you change the software when you're not permitted, go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200.
If we were living in a sensible world your observation would hold true.
Sadly politicians do not live in the real world and have demonstrated many times they have a complete lack of understanding of what is achievable in any given time frame. This will be included in the Tory or Labour finance bills assuming one of them presents the next finance bill.
"Which is why the rate I demand is higher than if I was permi. If they want to tax that as "income", then they need to ensure people get holiday pay (etc)"
Sorry, but the higher rate you demand INCLUDES your holiday pay, etc. By getting "paid" more for days you charge for, you are covering those days you do not charge for. Same with all other benefits, they are included in your rate.
What IR35 is missing is a way for all those to be taken into account before the tax is calculated (e.g. you should be able to subtract the value of x holidays from your gross before the tax rate is applied.
"From memory; accountants take no responsibility if they make a mistake"
Not true. My accountants failed to properly submit my accounts last year, HMRC levied a fine, the Accountants refunded the fine. (one of the big specialist contractor accountants)
"Second a general election which returned a leave government"
No, it didn't, it delivered a reduced majority for Tory and a minority Government that then had to do a deal with the DUP to stand any semblance of control (which turns out they didn't command).
"Third the MEP election ..., resulting in the brexit party winning."
Brexit party got 31%, maybe the highest single party, but not in any universe a win. Even adding Tory and UKIP as backing Leave they only command 43%, so 57% of the seats are Remain backed seats.
So 1-2 if you're going to try and keep score.
Thank you for you caveat, but can I assure you that 48% of those that voted were quite happy to keep our European family as one, and if you can count the abstainers as ambivalent then the majority of the UK population are happy for them to stay.
And that is the problem - there is no clear majority. It is so close that a vote on any one day could go one way or another, and that is not a sound basis for such major constitutional change.
And it turns out we could have had Blue Passports all along.
The Leave campaign really did sell come shit to the electorate
Would be a shame if someone reliable set up a "walled garden" Play Store in another country. Something that ensured only official versions of Apps were made available, but wasn't subject to the trade restrictions currently in place.
Don't Google have a presence in Ireland? And Luxembourg? And Switzerland? And the Caymen Islands? Lots of places with tight privacy laws and good connections.
Seriously?
A pencil?
Good grief man, don’t you know there’s agents of the opposition in the counting centres who rub out your vote and change it to their candidate!
You need to order an embossed stamp with indelible ink so that not only is the mark visibly permanent but also physically fixed.
(Sadly I have “friends” who believe this is necessary, never having read the procedures book from the Electoral Commission)
It might just be the way Teams is being rolled out in my Organisation but Teams is terrible. Having been users of Communicator then Skype for over 10 years, Teams seems like a backward step. It's slow, it doesn't alert properly, it's not intuitive and seems to have variable functionality. I'm guessing this is a symptom of Agile(tm) development delivering a minimum viable product and "seeing where it goes".
I'd also recommend watching Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War. Gives a wider view of the lies and devious tactics the Leave campaign employed.
No, they're whining that as a Partner to Microsoft, Microsoft isn't giving them a reduction on the cost of the stuff they use internally.. They'll need to pay full price and still spend money being a Partner.
None of the stuff in the Action Pack can be sold.
Nope, definitely wouldn't get that in the current climate.
Wouldn't get any of the major UK banks using live data for testing, no Sir.
And definitely wouldn't get any of the major UK banks hosting their test systems on their Production network without isolation from Production. No Sir, wouldn't happen.
#sarcasm
There must be off the shelf packages available to store this type of information, there are thousands of small businesses with memberships and customers.
Or like some of the comments above, I can do it for them. I'm a Microsoft Partner, I can sell the Microsoft Dynamics 365, as that's really all the database is, a customer tracking system.
From AgeID:
The PortesCard is available to purchase from selected high street retailers and any of the UK’s 29,000 PayPoint outlets
In my experience many of these PayPoint outlets are corner shops that already have no qualms selling alcohol and tobacco to anyone with cash and no ID, so why would these vouchers be any different
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