Tag: IR35
Government urged to end IR35 anomaly
The UK government is facing calls from campaigners to end an anomaly in IR35 legislation which has led to some freelancers paying a double...
Half of end-clients yet to prepare for IR35 reform
A new survey of more than three thousand contractors has revealed that 52 per cent of those currently in work have yet to have...
REC calls for delay to IR35 reform
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has written to chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak asking him to consider three areas of support in...
CEST ambiguous in one fifth of cases
HM Revenue & Customs’ online IR35 status checker, CEST, has been revealed to have given an “unable to determine” result in 19 per cent...
Norman reprimanded by Lords over IR35 implementation
Financial secretary to the treasury Jesse Norman was grilled by the House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee on Monday over the government’s implementation of...
Umbrellas to be explicitly excluded from IR35 reforms
In an embarrassing episode last week, HM Revenue & Customs admitted that poor drafting of the Finance Act had unintentionally included umbrella companies within...
IR35 reform bigger threat than Coronavirus or Brexit
Contractors perceive incoming changes to the IR35 rules as a greater threat to their business than either Brexit or the covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Recruiters reveal truth about IR35 reform
Only a quarter of recruitment firms believe that their clients were applying the new IR35 rules correctly in the run up to April, a...
Clients reverse blanket bans on PSCs during Off-Payroll deferral
Major hirers of contractors who implemented blanket bans on contractors operating through limited companies due to the planned extension of IR35 reforms to the...
40,000 backlog at Employment Tribunal
A legal employment expert has estimated some 40,000 cases may be waiting to be heard by the Employment Tribunal, due in large part to...
