How the April 2021 Off-Payroll rules boost Direct Contracting

 In this article we look at one of the lesser publicised impacts of the “Off payroll” working rules from April 2021.

Historically, many large organisations have shied away from taking on contractors direct, preferring to interpose an agency into the equation, in order to distance themselves from potential tax claims from HMRC claiming that contractors were “disguised employees”.

We know of many instances where a client has sourced their own contractors, only to choose to administer the arrangement via a tame agency in order to lessen the risk of pursuit by the tax man. From April 2021 however, the job of determining the contractors tax status moves to the hiring organisation itself, so the client can no longer distance themselves from any potential tax implications in this way.

This will likely polarise the contract market in the following way – risk averse organisations are likely to give up using contractors all together (at least in the short-medium term) but organisations that place more value on the flexibility and skills that contract resources bring in, will find there is now even less of a reason to employ an agency to administer the relationship.

The agency model will therefore lose an important part of its current benefit to clients, enabling the direct hiring model to grow. In short, conditions are ripe for a mini-boom in direct contracting post April, even though the size of the overall contract market may well shrink as risk averse companies quit the market.

Over the last 4.5 years, Contract Spy has been assisting and driving the market to move towards more direct contracting, a trend we are expecting to continue to accelerate. We have enabled hiring organisations of all sizes to access a dedicated pool of direct contractors in order to fill their vacancies for highly skilled and flexible workers, at the same time bringing together all the advertised direct contracts in one easy to use database for contractors seeking a direct commercial relationship with the company they are contracted to.

There has never been a better time to move into a direct client contract.

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Aug 16, 2018 03:38 pm

CONTRACT DESCRIPTION

Are you an excellent full stack developer? 

Are you looking for a new and exciting role where you can tackle interesting problems, make a difference and put your skills into practice? 

If you are then please read on.

Technical Skills and Experience you will need to have:

• Significant and extensive experience of Java, JavaScript (TypeScript), JMS, Junit with Mockito/Wiremock and JPA/Hibernate.
• Significant and extensive experience of building applications in JavaEE, Angular (TypeScript), JBoss/Wildfly and JSF.
• Significant experience of working with PostgreSQL.
• Some exposure to CQRS and Event Sourcing.
• Working in a Continuous Integration environment is a requirement, experience of Continuous Delivery or Deployment is even better, using modern version control (Git).
• Experience of building and testing modern software applications
• Experience of applying common design principles and patterns
• Experience of working in a collaborative team environment
• Experience of troubleshooting issues within development and test environments
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to express issues to other technical and non-technical people.

It will be Advantageous if you have:

• Developed applications utilising CQRS and Event Sourcing.
• Worked on a project assessed by the Government Digital Service (GDS).
• Worked collaboratively and effectively in DevOps environments.
• Exposure to multiple programming languages and data storage technologies (e.g. SQL/NOSQL).

Other Skills you should have:

• Experience of working in an agile way including running Three Amigos/Power of Three/Story Kick-offs and all of the usual agile ceremonies.

We need people with technical problem-solving skills and there is, therefore, a short test to complete as part of the application process.

We are passionate about building ongoing relationships with the right people and always look first to people we know and trust. Our business is growing which is why we are advertising these roles. We work with a wide range of customer in the private and public sector.

If this is the sort of opportunity you are looking for please apply today.

At Evoco Digital Services we value diversity pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity workplace for our staff, suppliers and partners.

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Rate:  £450-500 depending on experience.

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