Nobody actually expected him to listen to the consultation responses did they? The comments on the BBC article make it clearly obvious that this is a fairly "uncontroversial" move given that a) most non-contractors/freelancers really understand what this is all about and b) the general public clearly think we're all tax avoiding shysters and would support this.
But I'm not completely pessimistic, I think there's a good chance that this will backfire on the government and all that will happen is most clients will be happy to work with their contractors on an outside IR35 basis and that is a *good* thing for us because it puts the onus on the client to take what being "outside IR35" means more seriously and realising they cannot exert direction or control over us. They might even become more amenable to genuine unfettered RoS clauses if they think it covers their arses.
But I'm not completely pessimistic, I think there's a good chance that this will backfire on the government and all that will happen is most clients will be happy to work with their contractors on an outside IR35 basis and that is a *good* thing for us because it puts the onus on the client to take what being "outside IR35" means more seriously and realising they cannot exert direction or control over us. They might even become more amenable to genuine unfettered RoS clauses if they think it covers their arses.
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