About the author Dave Chaplin
Dave Chaplin has lived and breathed contracting since he first took the plunge and became a professional contractor in 1997. He spent seven years working as an IT contractor in the City of London on critical, cutting-edge IT infrastructure and development projects for global players like HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Cable and Wireless, and many others.
Dave’s contracting career has seen him survive and thrive through the highs of the boom years and the lows of the dot-com crash; and through bright periods of plenty and gloomy times of belt-tightening recession. He founded the popular contractor website, ContractorCalculator.co.uk, and has been its full-time CEO since 2004.
ContractorCalculator.co.uk
ContractorCalculator is a leading independent UK internet site for contractors and freelancers, ContractorCalculator first launched in 1999 as ir35calc.co.uk with a range of pay calculators designed to provide accurate estimates of net pay following the introduction of the controversial IR35 tax legislation.
Now ContractorCalculator.co.uk offers FREE to its readers:
- Over thirty online calculators to aid key areas of financial decision making for contractors
- A comprehensive knowledge base of contracting guides covering all the key aspects of contracting
- Timely and accurate reporting on the latest issues facing UK contractors
- In-depth analyses of the key influences affecting contractors and their lifestyles
- A Contractor Doctor feature in which specialists advise on a wide range of the usual, and sometimes bizarre, situations that contractors find themselves in
- Access to contractor financial services ranging from mortgages and pensions to insurance
ContractorCalculator is regularly
audited by ABC, and its most recent audit
(see certificate) showed
that 130,682 unique users/browsers accessed the site in March 2011.
ContractorCalculator is the only specialist website for contractors
to be audited by ABC, and which has committed to undertaking
regular audits and making public the results.
