I'm not after making a 'saving' - I'm after hiring a replacement - I still need to pay the person on maternity leave. It's the point that almost all contractors have put up their prices.
No the rules are not sensible, they assume a contractor gets the same benefits as a full time employee -...
The new IR35 rules are utterly ridiculous. Just a way of forcing the self employed into being nominally 'employed' and therefore pay more tax. It will lose people their jobs. I need a to hire a contractor for maternity leave cover .... prices have gone up so much I'm probably not going to...