Tips: Self Employed

[yogavo]

I am close to getting a UTR Number while I am working on what I hope will be a 9 month contract.

Do any of you plumbers have any tips for going/being self-employed?

Please share.

 

[lame plumber]

9 month contract with one employer = employed surely

 

[yogavo]

I will be paid as self-employed

 

[Whl4852]

Yeah, don't do it!

 

[lame plumber]

if your working for a builder for several months taxman calls that employed as the definition of self employed looks at whether your providing materials etc so watch your back on this one

 

[plumber0808]

A nine month contract is a good opportunity if the money's ok.

 

[peteheat]

Get advice from an accountant, your playing a dangerous game and don't know it.

If it's any help the builder will do OK out of an arrangement like that.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Read this link

It gives the HMRC guidelines on what constitutes being self-employed.

 

[gasmanrob]

Charge him for a tube of mastic a week don't wear any uniform supplied unless you buy it, never put the words @ £--- per DAY on an invoice and put one or 2 pj's on a proper invoice and you have just become your own risk and there for sit within the letters of the law. But can you live with it morally lol.

 

[AWheating]

its fine if your working that contract and do other work for your own/other customers during the same period. If you do no other work then you may struggle to prove it if questioned.

if you work soley for on company for a long period you could be made to become an employee with them, but its a small risk tbh.