- The independent FRAMEWORK FOR IR35 COMPLIANCE
Looking to deliver your services 'outside' of IR35?
Want to engage with clients who understand the benefits of an outcome based, statement of work model? Looking to remain ‘outside’ of IR35?
What is Contora®?
- Substitution Agreements
- Statements of Work
- Work sign-off
- Aligned ways of working
How Contora® works
Before you know it, you will be working in a fully compliant, off-payroll manner.
Centralised COMPLIANCE
CONTORA® provides an all-party, common way of working for managing statements of work, from initial creation, review and approval through to final sign-off and invoice approvals.
Business Growth
CONTORA® supports independent contractors to evolve and grow their business into a true off-payroll consultancy with transparent visibility of substitution, independence and risk.
Contract approval
The CONTORA® toolset and framework allows suppliers and engagers to create, track and approve IR35 compliant statements of work and deliverables through a single portal.
CONTORA® makes your contracts and statements of work visible, interactive and collaborative rather than paper-based, inert and difficult to manage.
Why you need CONTORA®
To support IR35 compliance it’s important to ensure that the engager and suppliers are on the same page, not just contractually but also in their ways of working.
CONTORA® is the framework that makes this happen. Easily. It’s also revolutionary for the industry. Rather than sell insurance, or charge for contractual reviews, we decided to focus on ‘value add’ services that provide benefits to both the client and the supplier.
CONTORA® puts compliance first and makes life easier for everybody involved. It is a collaborative way of working that provides full transparency of milestones and deliverables.
CONTORA® puts engagers and suppliers on the same page, all in the same place.
What CONTORA® gives you, the supplier....
When you fully align your ways of working to the CONTORA® Framework it provides you with the following key benefits:
- A clear view of your capabilities
CONTORA® assesses how your company is set-up, to give potential clients a clear view of your capabilities and ways of working
- Partner agreements
- Substitution Partner agreements are explicitly called out in both MSA’s and SoW’s signed by clients.
- Approved IR35 templates
- Marketplace
An SoW based Marketplace allowing you to promote your business and tender for opportunities posted by clients.
- Gives all suppliers access to clients of all sizes.
- Provides greater visibility of opportunities and potential clients.
- Access to CONTORA® discounts on partner products and services.
- Docusign and eversign integration
Integrates with Docusign and accounting systems, coupled with blockchain technology to provide immutable proof of compliance.
- IR35 Statement of Work templates
- Can be provided as documented evidence of MOO, Control &Risk.
- Reviewed, agreed and signed by both you and your client.
- Built in Milestone/Delivery based payment approval process that meet IR35 requirements.
- Formalised change process for updates and extensions.
- Quickly create substitution Statement of Works (SoW) based on a client’s requirements either at the SoW, Milestone or deliverable level.
- Goes beyond SoW creation – it manages and tracks the deliverables and payment approvals as well.
- Provides project wide visibility of all SoW’s and deliverables, their status, and payments for budgetary purposes.
Already have IR35 insurance or been assessed outside IR35? Here’s why you should still join CONTORA®...
Insurance and assessments provide you with re-assurance that, contractually, all parties have agreed the content of a status determination. Once the assessment and insurance are in place it could be assumed that there is no more to worry about. This couldn’t be further from the reality. You are at the start of your compliance journey.
After April 2021 HMRC will begin investigating and challenging the IR35 determinations made by medium and large companies, and an area of particular focus will be on actual ways of working and whether or not these are truly aligned with the evidence used to originally create the determination result.
For example, if the determination stipulates substitution is possible and yet there are no clear methods to execute this, then it could be deemed invalid. Likewise, if the determination states that risk will be demonstrated by statements of work, but in reality you continue to be directed or controlled outside of this with no evidence to the contrary, then HMRC may deem this as invalid.
CONTORA® provides all parties with a single, immutable audit trail of contractual deliverables and ways of working to support IR35 compliance throughout the contract lifecycle.
Remaining 'outside' IR35 requires action by you...
Change doesn't happen over night but to remain operating 'outside' of IR35 you need to act now...
If you’re not already adjusting the way you approach your off-payroll engagements then its likely that you will end up being placed ‘inside’ IR35 by your clients.
Much focus has been placed on the contractual key tests (Mutuality of Obligation, Substitution, Control) but there is another key factor that clients are considering when completing their status determination statements; most contractors are not properly set up to operate as a bone fide business that can create and deliver outcome based services.
Just running a limited company and engaging an accountant does not automatically entitle you to an outside IR35 status determination if you are still providing CV’s and signing contracts that have no clear deliverables and are not aligned with your actual ways of working.
CONTORA helps you make some very simple changes that enable you start demonstrating your true potential.
Is CONTORA® just an umbrella company in disguise?
No, CONTORA® is an independent framework that can be used by any organisation wishing to retain their off-payroll services ‘outside’ of IR35 through their existing limited company.
CONTORA® manages contracts, statements of work and deliverables more efficiently; It helps organisations transition their ways of working toward a delivery/outcome based model whilst improving augmentation efficiency and reducing costs.
CONTORA® can be used by clients, agencies, consultancies and independent contractors involved in off-payroll engagements, to engage suppliers ‘outside’ IR35 compliance and provide full transparency of product deliverables.
As a contractor, CONTORA® can help you grow your business and engage multiple clients, further proving your status as a bone-fide business.
What have I got to lose?
You quite literally have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
It’s this easy:
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Join CONTORA® today
(did we mention that it’s free?)
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Add your company details, build your partner network and start creating statements of work
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Engage with clients knowing that everyone is using the CONTORA® Framework
What HMRC will scrutinise to establish your true IR35 status.
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