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Freelancing Limits and Alternatives
ragged_diamond
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2 June 2008
Hi there
I am currently employed full time at a studio but the boss is complaining that PAYE is costing him too much to keep me on it (i am the only employee on PAYE, everyone else is freelance self employed). I like the security being on payroll offers, and am unsure that he wants to take me off it.
However, this is where the line gets hazy. He says he doesnt want to take me as a freelancer as he can only employ them for 6 months at a time... he thinks this is a general consensus across all businesses, but i have worked with freelancers before who have been in their current position for years.
Can anyone help clear this up? Or offer alternative to Payroll but with more security than freelancing?
Many thanks!
Jo
I am currently employed full time at a studio but the boss is complaining that PAYE is costing him too much to keep me on it (i am the only employee on PAYE, everyone else is freelance self employed). I like the security being on payroll offers, and am unsure that he wants to take me off it.
However, this is where the line gets hazy. He says he doesnt want to take me as a freelancer as he can only employ them for 6 months at a time... he thinks this is a general consensus across all businesses, but i have worked with freelancers before who have been in their current position for years.
Can anyone help clear this up? Or offer alternative to Payroll but with more security than freelancing?
Many thanks!
Jo
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eagle-eyes
Messages count : 7Likes count : 0Registration : 16 December 2007Your boss is on really shaky ground if the other freelancers are full-time and working only for the studio because as far as the Inland Revenue is concerned they would be employees and the studio should be responsible for their tax and NI. Maybe that's where your boss is getting the six months idea. You can have freelancers work for you for as long as you like provided they're truly self-employed and work for more than one company. If you were forced into going freelance yourself you'd need to have at least one other source of earnings to stay within tax rules. I'm assuming there aren't vast numbers of other similar jobs around or you wouldn't be in this dilemma but from the outside it looks as though looking for a new job is your best bet... Freelancing is precarious and if you're not convinced of the advantages I'd say don't be pushed into it. Good luck.