Rebecca Seeley Harris

Rebecca is the UK’s leading legal expert in employment status, IR35 and the law involving independent contractors and the self-employed for the purposes of tax and employment law. Rebecca has run her own consultancy for over 25 years covering all employment status issues such as off-payroll in the private and public sector, otherwise known as IR35, s.44 and any issues affecting the self-employed and personal service companies.

She has worked extensively on the tax policy of joint and several liability for umbrella companies both with the industry and the Government. She sits on the Umbrella Company Industry Working Group and is chair of the Independent Arbitration Panel for the FCSA.  Rebecca is also a member of the Employment Status Consultative Committee (ESCC).

Rebecca was also seconded to the Office of Tax Simplification (an independent body of HM Treasury) as a Senior Policy Adviser to advise the government on employment and tax status.  She was part of a small team of experts who drafted the Employment Status Review 2015, she then continued to advise on the review of Small Company Taxation leading on the taxation of nano companies and the self-employed. As a result of that review, Rebecca developed the concept of SEPA, providing a vehicle for the self-employed to be able to protect the family home. Rebecca was also a representative on the Cross Government Working Group on Employment Status and published the review into the taxation of the Gig Economy.