Re: FN-FORUM Advice needed

date posted 1st September 2001 07:34

s/avoiding IR35/absolutely guaranteeing to be caught by IR35/

The income to your limited company will be completely caught by IR35 as
you are doing the work and are a major shareholder.


[EMAIL REMOVED] (Geoff) wrote:

> Hi,
> I and several contracting colleagues would like to setup an agency to
> compete with the big boys and to bid against other agencies for blue
> chip
> internet and web applications. Our skill set is excellent and our
> previous
> clients and work has nearly all been blue chip. Our contracts are about
> to
> end and we want to try to win business against those design agencies our
> employers also consider outsourcing to, instead of using their own staff
> and/or contractors for. The work is definately there, but the company
> seem
> to want to go down the coutsourcing path. We have all been with this one
> particular company for eighteen months to three years and our
> relationships
> are well formed.
>
> What would be the best next step? How feasible would it be to set up a
> company with each contractor as a director, to bid for this work and
> then
> contract it out to ourselves using our current limited companies? (thus
> avoiding ir35?) How would I go about getting the ball rolling?
>
> Geoff.