Originally posted by Sezzler
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By all means, rely on what IPSE told you. However, there will be different opinions about this and it will depend on the precise nature of the clauses. My opinion is that such attempts will mostly fail, either in substance or because the amount is unrecoverable. Regardless of whether they succeed or fail, the fee payer still carries the risk of not deducting according to their statutory responsibility, and that seems to be the salient point, because they won't rely on the risk having been mitigated by the contract clause (if they have any sense).
There will continue to be speculation about what happens between now and next April (and thereafter), but there isn't long to wait now. I personally think that it will change contracting fundamentally, but we'll see shortly.
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