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Compliance and Benefits

Compliance and Benefits HMRC Investigations - we remove the risk for you
You guessed it, no longer your problem, but ours. With our Contractor Management System, and financial expertise, we are confident that our contractors operate within the guidelines set by HMRC. In the event of an investigation, we bear all the risk - not you, not your company.
With this load off, you get to focus on recruiting and the temp on the contract. Need we say more?

Financially responsible - your contractor is safe with us

Heard of IR35? Understand it? There is a bewildering amount of literature available online, and you would have to be very determined to get to the nuts and bolts of the legislation, simply to establish as an agent, what the best route for you to recommend to your contractors is. Compliance and Benefits
As an agent, you should know the following:
  • A large percentage of contractors many of whom are blatantly inside IR35, still choose to ignore IR35 and other legislation by operating through their own Limited Company. They do this to their detriment. Click here to see why.
  • We know that HMRC has in the last year launched 2 massive purges against IR35 - infringing contractors. More are on the way.
  • Companies that pay contractors dividends, known in the industry as Composite Companies are operating tax avoidance systems that are under investigation by the government.
We know this because:
  • The HMRC have recently opened a second Specialist Office whose purpose it is, is to investigate Composite Companies and their members.
  • These companies were specifically mentioned in the 2006 budget.
Click here to learn more about Composite Companies, the 2006 Budget speech and why your contractors should be avoiding these structures like the plague.
Atlantic Umbrella is an umbrella company that operates a PAYE scheme only. We believe that in today's contracting environment, it is the only financially responsible way for contractors to get paid. Our contractors are safe, period.
To know more about how we operate, click here.