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Originally Posted by Rob Crossland
My advice would be to concentrate on the role and career and use the most appropriate form of trading entity that matches your views on risk and whether you aim to be "in business" or wish to use a professional employment solution.
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I completely agree. I would discourage anyone from using a limited company, no matter how long they flexi-work for, for any other reason than to use it as a legitimate business trading vehicle.
The just 'avoid IR35 approach' to using a limited company as just a convenient payment vehicle is no longer a safe option, in my view, and using it as a vehicle for taking up a stream of likely deemed employed engagements is precisely why IR35 was introduced in the first place - to give a label to this kind of 'misuse.'
Unfortunately, one needs to think beyond the personal advantages of saving a bit of tax, and look to the wider implications of what this may signify for everyone else that comprises the 'freelance community' (so called) in the shorter and longer term, particularly now that there are many good brollies on the market these days.