Lawspeed services

Contractors & Interims

Since 2000, the date the tax laws known as IR35 were implemented, we have provided advice and compliance services across a range of legal issues for contractors.

Our credentials include the following:

  • We were the first service provider to provide effective IR35 contracts for use by agencies with their contractors, devised and available from the end of 1999
  • The terms in our contract were used by an agency in the first public IR35 case, Lime IT, and relied on to establish that LimeIT was operating outside IR35. The specific terms were named by the Tax Commissioner as crucial.
  • We brought the first IR35 insurance policy to the market.

Tax is not the only aspect since early on we recognised that contractors also need commercial advice. The result is that thousands of contractors, interims and freelancers from across all sectors have used our services to secure their business and shore up their tax arrangements.

Using trained lawyers rather than accountants, our focus is on providing a comprehensive and thorough service, with excellent turnaround times. We are affiliate members of the PCG.

Areas in which we can help contractor, interim and freelancer clients include:

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Interim or contractor terms & conditions - IR35 contracts

Lawspeed has been drafting interim management, freelance and contractor terms and conditions since 2001. We were the first to draft IR35 contracts and our terms were relied upon by the Commissioner in the Lime IT IR35 case, to find in favour of the contractor.

All of our contractor terms and conditions documents are drafted to be user-friendly, understandable and unambiguous and at the same time to provide your company with the best possible protection from liability. All of our contracts are commercially robust and the IR35 contracts are drafted with regard to all of the latest case law.

Specially tailored agreements are available for contractors, interims and freelancers and a number of off-the-shelf templates are also available.

Interim, freelancer and contractor terms and conditions include:

  • IR35 contracts and direct project agreements
  • Consultancy agreements
  • Subcontracting agreements
  • Internal company documents

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