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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Most of the final subbies are one-man-bands and have substantially lower overheads than a full company. That's how everybody makes a cut. It's the way of the modern world.
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It's all clearly just a tax fiddle anyway. People who work for the likes of MJ Quinn and Kelly's are to all intents and purposes employees. But they get away with being called self-employed. That way the firms don't have to worry about tax or national insurance.
HMRC have a test that determines if someone is self employed or not, it asks questions like "do you have a specific start time?", "what happens if you don't turn up to work on time?", "do you have someone you are answerable to?", etc etc. The lads working for MJ Quinn's and Kelly's on the OR contract would almost certainly fail the test and therefore should be brought into the PAYE system. But no one at HMRC seems to care about this type of thing anymore.
The country loses money and the staff lose all of the employment laws that come with being employed. Makes me angry!