--- McShane Sonja <Sonja.McShane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry, but I'm not sure of the official title for > companies like Freelance.= > What are they called? Funnily enough, they're usually called contractor management companies. One caveat: before hooking up with a contractor management company, it might pay to get some independent legal and/or accounting advice about the legitimacy of their contractor management model. There is a particular partnership-based model that has been highlighted by the ATO for investigation as "aggressive tax planning". For more info, see http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?docid=tpa/ta20024/nat/ato/00001 The worrying thing is that there's no real way of knowing whether other contractor management models might attract similar scrutiny in the future. In other words, perceived short-term tax benefits could expose you to increased attention from the ATO and a possible future tax penalty nightmare... A nice happy note to end on :-) Cheers Stewart (who has his own company but sometimes wonders if the grass is greener with contractor management companies) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************