HMRC's obsession with contractors

[Jog On]

All these news stories about new measures Hector is putting in place makes me wonder - why are contractors getting so much attention?

Don't they have other areas where they could try and close 'loopholes'.

Is it just because they think we're easier to come after than super rich and big businesses?

[ratewhore]

Are they contractor specific? Or are they small business specific?

[malvolio]

Contractor. It's coming off the back of the TUCs aversion to what they call "casualisation of the workforce". Agreed they are actually talking about temps (a lot of whom are immigrants as well) who are getting screwed over by unscrupulous employers, but HMG is too dim to separate out the middle-ground people like us. So we're kind of caught in tthe crossfire

[TheFaQQer]

It's only fair.

[Marina]

All these news stories about new measures Hector is putting in place makes me wonder - why are contractors getting so much attention?

Because the govermin is absolutely desperate for money, and grubbing about frantically for every penny available.

They'd shave the wool off sheep standing in the fields if they thought it would bring in a few million.

[Jubber]

They'd shave the wool off sheep standing in the fields if they thought it would bring in a few million.

Shaven Sheep ....... kinky.

[bogeyman]

We are anathema

Blimey Jog, have you only just realised this?

They (HMRC, the Labour Government, and chippy lefties in general) HATE OUR F**KING GUTS!

Why? Well, the reasons are numerous and well documented, so I will refrain from giving a comprehensive list here.

Suffice to say that IR35 (yes, remember?) set the tone for our relationship with the party in power. The Paymaster General, no less, compared us to 'glorified typists' and war was promptly declared.

In summary, the principal reasons why they hate and fixate upon us are: -

1) We are independent and not under the control of the government, or friends of the government (i.e. big corporate employers).

2) We are entrepreneurial. This is plainly anathema to these clods who have never so much as ran a whelk stall. They have no concept of risk and reward, standing on ones own feet etc.

3) We are natural anti-Labourites. We hate everything they stand for. They prop up the dependency culture whereas we try to escape from it.

Labour have always been suspicious of the self-employed, the small business owners, and those who wish to better themselves, and they seek to penalise them at every opportunity.

It's as if being self-employed were some sort of fiddle, or a tax dodge. As we know, they are the fiddlers and dodgers, not us.

[Pondlife]

In summary, the principal reasons why they hate and fixate upon us are: -

1) We are independent and not under the control of the government, or friends of the government (i.e. big corporate employers).

2) We are entrepreneurial. This is plainly anathema to these clods who have never so much as ran a whelk stall. They have no concept of risk and reward, standing on ones own feet etc.

3) We are natural anti-Labourites. We hate everything they stand for. They prop up the dependency culture whereas we try to escape from it.

Labour have always been suspicious of the self-employed, the small business owners, and those who wish to better themselves, and they seek to penalise them at every opportunity.

It's as if being self-employed were some sort of fiddle, or a tax dodge. As we know, they are the fiddlers and dodgers, not us.

Post of the day. (Unfortunately cos it's true)

[BrilloPad]

Blimey Jog, have you only just realised this?

They (HMRC, the Labour Government, and chippy lefties in general) HATE OUR F**KING GUTS!

Why? Well, the reasons are numerous and well documented, so I will refrain from giving a comprehensive list here.

Suffice to say that IR35 (yes, remember?) set the tone for our relationship with the party in power. The Paymaster General, no less, compared us to 'glorified typists' and war was promptly declared.

In summary, the principal reasons why they hate and fixate upon us are: -

1) We are independent and not under the control of the government, or friends of the government (i.e. big corporate employers).

2) We are entrepreneurial. This is plainly anathema to these clods who have never so much as ran a whelk stall. They have no concept of risk and reward, standing on ones own feet etc.

3) We are natural anti-Labourites. We hate everything they stand for. They prop up the dependency culture whereas we try to escape from it.

Labour have always been suspicious of the self-employed, the small business owners, and those who wish to better themselves, and they seek to penalise them at every opportunity.

It's as if being self-employed were some sort of fiddle, or a tax dodge. As we know, they are the fiddlers and dodgers, not us.

well said Sir! any chance of you standing for head of PCG? I would rejoin if you were.

[El_Diablo]

Well said Bogeyman.