Evening workshops and one-off clinics in Armley for people running a limited company. Status rules, what to pay yourself, and what HMRC actually looks at when it opens an enquiry.
We don't sell umbrella schemes and we don't take referral fees from anyone who does.
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Two of us. One spent nine years inside contractor accountancy and got tired of explaining the same three things on the phone, one at a time, badly. The other handles the room and the paperwork.
We are not a practice. We don't do your books, we don't file your return and we don't want your login. What we do is sit down with the contract you've actually signed and go through it until you can explain it back to us.
You pick the order. Most people start at the first one and never get past the third.
The SDS the client sent you, read line by line. Where it came from, what CEST was asked, and whether the answers match the job you actually do.
If you're inside, what's left after the 5% is gone and the fee-payer has taken PAYE and NIC off the top.
Where the sensible split sits this year once the dividend allowance, the secondary threshold and corporation tax marginal relief are all in the same sum.
Mileage, home office, the laptop, the course you paid for. Which of them hold up and which quietly become a benefit in kind.
31 January, 31 July, and the corporation tax deadline nobody diaries because it moves with your year end.
A determination changed mid-contract, a blanket inside call across the whole department, or an agency that suddenly wants you on an umbrella. What you can push back on, and how.
Two prices, both said before you book. There is no third option that appears halfway through.
An hour across the table, one contract, your numbers. Two people from the same company can sit in for the same money — usually a director and whoever actually does the invoicing.
One topic, eight chairs, no slides emailed afterwards.
No VAT on either: we are under the registration threshold, so the number quoted is the number invoiced. Payment on the day or on a seven-day invoice, whichever suits your bookkeeping.
None of them are stupid. Three of them are just out of date.
“I've got a substitution clause, so I'm outside.”
A clause on paper counts for very little if the client would never in practice accept anyone else. Tribunals look at what would actually happen, not at what the contract permits.
“CEST said outside, so that's settled.”
CEST gives an answer to the questions it was asked. If the person filling it in ticked boxes that don't match your day, the output protects nobody.
“Inside IR35 means I have to close the company.”
It doesn't. Plenty of people run one inside contract and two outside ones through the same company in the same year.
“Taking the smallest possible salary is always best.”
It was, for a while. Since employer NIC and corporation tax both moved, the sum has to be redone rather than remembered — and the answer now depends on how many directors are on the payroll.
Not a syllabus. Just what keeps coming up.
Two minutes each. It sounds like a waste of the first twenty, and it isn't: half the room turns out to be on the same framework with the same wording in their contracts.
Drawn, not projected. You can photograph it.
Whoever volunteers. Names and rates covered up, the clauses left visible.
The last stretch is arithmetic on your figures, not on an example company. This is the part people say they came for, and the part that always runs over.
If you only have two of them, come anyway. We've started from less.
Yes, and it usually goes well. They know your history, we've read more determinations. Nobody has to pretend the other one is wrong.
No. People stop asking the useful questions the moment a recording is running, and the useful questions are the whole point.
Not by ourselves, and anyone who says otherwise on the phone is guessing. What an hour will get you: whether the determination is defensible against the work you're actually doing, what the disagreement process obliges the client to do and by when, and what the money looks like if you take the inside role anyway.
Sometimes the honest answer is that the contract is inside and always was. We'd rather say that at the table than sell you a second session.
The clinics are in the room, on Carr Crofts Drive. We don't do them over video, so it depends how far you fancy driving.
Phone is quickest. If you'd rather write it down, the email gets read the same day.
0113 204 1266 or [email protected]Everything below is a hard deadline with a penalty attached. Two of them catch people out every single year.
Self Assessment filed and the balancing payment made. The same date carries your first payment on account, which is why the bill feels bigger than the tax you were expecting.
Second payment on account. No return to file, just money out.
Corporation tax, counted from your own year end rather than from any date in the calendar. This is the one nobody diaries.
The company tax return itself, three months after the money was due. Late by a day and there is a penalty, however small the profit.
End of the tax year, and the last moment to move a dividend into it or out of it.
Carr Crofts Drive, off Armley Road. It's a residential street, so there's usually a space outside. The 14 and 16 stop a five minute walk away on Stanningley Road.
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