Introduction

When engaging a worker to provide services to your business, it is important to consider whether the individual worker providing those services has the status of an employee of your business or is instead a self-employed contractor. (For convenience, we refer to an individual as a “worker” whether an employee or self-employed).

It is also important to consider whether in the case of a personal service company (“PSC”) used as an intermediary by that individual worker, the IR35 rules apply to the proposed engagement of that company. IR35 legislation is often an area of confusion for businesses.

Although the IR35 rules also apply to intermediaries other than PSCs, these information pages address the use of PSCs only.

The Business documents available from Simply-Docs include templates which can be used as a basis for creating forms of agreement between a client and a freelance worker/intermediary company (to see those templates, click here ).