The withdrawal of an Employment Rights Bill amendment isn’t the last contractors will hear of a brolly licensing authority. Not if we have anything to do with it.
If PAYE/NICs to the taxman fall short under both Chapters 11 and 7, the top agency or MSP is on the hook. And if there’s no agency or no umbrella, the end-client is on the hook.
Policy-makers’ focus on 665,000 Personal Service Companies must be sharpened to untangle them from the web that successive governments have ensnared them in.