Re: FN-FORUM: Legal gubbins you need to follos when employing contractors

date posted 23rd November 2007 12:35

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:18:49PM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
> this all sounds a bit odd.
>
> imagine a window cleaner that doesn't pay his taxes, is the IR going
> to try and recover them from each of his clients?
>
> or a builder that builds extensions?
>
> or an accountant that does your books?
>
> I suspect there's some mis-information here, so anyone that has any
> clarity on this please let me know. As a sole trader, not paying
> taxes and having my clients get stung for them instead sounds quite
> interesting..

The difference is that the above have many clients and so are obviously
not your employee. If you provide work that fills most of their working
hours things become a bit grey ... this is what IR35 was all about.

As I said: a letter from their accountant saying that they are schedule D
(ie the tax man knows that they are self employed) should let you off the
hook -- you have shown due diligence.

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