You get your own manager. You will have direct contact with him/her in all matters such as negotiating with clients, writing contracts, invoicing, salaries, taxes and pay-outs.
No need for you to be an administrator anymore. Instead, you can focus on two things: finding and servicing your customers. Stearpoint handles all the rest. This together with possible tax savings equals minimized administration and maximized earnings and safety for you.
You can approach your clients with full confidence instead of feeling like a one-man-business trying to make a contract with them. Stearpoint has been in business since 2003 and has since then a solid company history as a consultant company. Stearpoint is VAT registered in several EU countries and keep bank accounts with big banks and in many currencies so payments cannot be easier for your clients.
Negotiations and contracts are sometimes very complex and may require business and legal experience. This is one of the areas where Stearpoint will take an active part to close the deal together with you. We have all the needed experience and can analyze or produce customized and rather complex contract terms, all as needed.
All you need to do is fill out the time report cards or similar or provide other information for the invoicing. We take care of the rest. All issued and paid invoices will be shown in the monthly statements that we send you by encrypted email.
As a consultant working with Stearpoint, you don’t need to think about VAT issues. Stearpoint makes sure of full VAT compliance. Based on the payment of each invoice, VAT declarations and EC Sales Lists are handled.
When clients pay, the transaction is recorded in our accounting system, generating a range of outputs used for VAT, salaries, taxes, service fees and statutory reporting requirements. If a payment is late, Stearpoint follows up with reminders and you will be notified.
Stearpoint will handle all relevant bank pay-outs, including salaries, to you. Salaries need to be declared to the tax authority in the country where you are tax resident. The laws and regulations, as well as procedures, on how to do this differ between countries.
Stearpoint, being a foreign company without permanent establishment in Sweden, only pays 21.54% in socials security contributions. Local companies pay 31.42% in normal social security contributions (year 2014). This means more money, 9.9 per cent, to keep for you!
You will receive a special MasterCard that can be used for receiving salaries or reimbursement of expenses.
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Before Stearpoint, I was an employed MD in a Swedish marketing company and wanted a change in my life. Now I work for several companies on consultant basis and I save 10% in social security taxes.
Companies behind many websites that I have promoted, often pay out money in strange ways. I wanted to do things right, but felt uncertain how to handle this income before Stearpoint.
I was mostly paid in cash when I worked. I liked that part, but didn’t like the part where I had to keep books and file a special declaration. It was very complicated. Then I came into contact with Stearpoint.
The pay in this business is great. However, contract periods are sometimes short and the contracts are very complex to analyse. Also, I have to be in different countries almost every year. It was hard to deal with matters before Stearpoint.
I love making code and building systems but I have to admit of total procrastination when it comes to administration and tax matters. Even sending invoices was hard for me before I learned about Stearpoint.
Yes, you can do that. Your brand name or logo can be at the top of each invoices. However, further down it must be clear that Stearpoint is the company behind the invoice and that the bank account for payment belongs to Stearpoint.
Most client companies prefer to do business with more established companies. This is especially important today with all the risks for money laundering. Stearpoint is actually registered in the UK with HMRC in line with money laundering regulations and has the certificate to prove that.
Then you simply let us know this and we will assist you with cancelling the contracts with the clients. After all, we wouldn’t be able to service them anyway without you since you are the resource they want.
You can’t be 100% sure of that just like you can’t be 100% sure that banks or deposit taking companies really pay you back. However, you can always stop the invoicing at any time should you feel less certain that Stearpoint will fulfill its obligations to you.
Pricing
are the relevant prices in October 2014.
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