Re: FN-FORUM Sole Trader, Ltd company...choices choices!

date posted 7th March 2000 10:28

>> I freelance through a Ltd...
>I call that 'contracting', not freelancing.

Not in this case, I essentially run a one-man web-design company,
through a Ltd

>Hence my disappointment with the flood of
>agencies posting vacancies

Agreed - we are aware of this problem though, and have plans to
address it - watch this space.

>I get work though an agency, then they are
>more-or-less obliged to deduct PAYE and NI

Only if they pay you through their payroll. There is no legal reason
why you can't just invoice them and handle your own NIC and tax.
Agreeing this is between you and the agency though.

Regards
Dan Winchester


Marion Chappell wrote:

> Note this post is specific to the UK...
>
> > I freelance through a Ltd...
>
> I call that 'contracting', not freelancing. To me, a freelancer
> is a self-employed person and not an employee of a company,
> albeit their own. Hence my disappointment with the flood of
> agencies posting vacancies.
>
> I've always been led to believe that if I get work though an
> agency, then they are more-or-less obliged to deduct PAYE and NI
> - or will this change once IR35 comes in?
>
> That's one downfall to being f/l, finding the work directly with
> clients. Otherwise, I find it brilliant. No worries about running
> a company. I just invoice, get paid, pay NI by direct debit, and
> pay tax every year under self-assessment. And my accountant costs
> £250+VAT per year.
>
> I've been a UK freelancer in web production (call it whatever)
> for the past four years and, for the last three, tend to work
> with at least one other person to bring the correct skill mix to
> the project.
>
> Again another downfall. When I got a *lot* of work for an
> international software house, we decided to invoice via my
> colleague's company for credibility purposes. Three years on, and
> we still work that way... and I've never ever met my clients (who
> are Euro-HQd in Germany, and headquartered in the States).
>
> Marion Chappell
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