Private Sector IR35 Reform News

Having binned both the net migration target and Tier 1’s cap, the government is told Tier 2 salary must be next in its sights.

Government told resisting a rush job on contractor tax reform would stem labour market uncertainty.

New government disappoints by churning out the ‘same old stuff,’ despite 25,000 fresh objections.

Harvey Nash on how prep for IR35’s revamp means meetings, questions and audits (all involving you).

Bank to ‘undoubtedly’ keep engaging PSCs, but it still wants 5,000 external techies on-payroll.

The Insolvency Service’s CET are like a lightning bolt; scary, but unlikely to strike you down.

‘Only very valued PSCs will get access to the (toothless, flawed) system; the rest won’t.'

The case of the doctor who did a commendable job underlines the injustice imposed, and incoming, on others who work independently.

‘We are analysing your feedback’ really meant ‘We are dismissing if it doesn’t meet our three aims.’

Not enshrining the tool hasn’t taken the heat out of how ‘useless’ version 2 is expected to be.

Come 2020, it looks as if a channel open for contractors to independently contest bad IR35 decisions will close.

A help to PSCs? A trigger for more blanketing? Or just more complexity? Experts think it all.

No duty on engagers to notify exempt status means PSC won’t know if IR35 is in play or not.

Few curveballs but no delay, as the biggest shake-up to contracting is going ahead from next April.

Radio sports writer scores a narrow win over HMRC’s hattrick of status arguments.

The three reasons clients give for not sorting your IR35 status will go as Finance Bill arrives tomorrow.

Despite new replies on IR35 not adding much, one contractor is taking a stand -- alongside 12,000 others.

Delaying April’s rules is the only way to avert more Morgan Stanleys, policy-makers told.

A 25% siphon from your pay adds up to fraud, and may build the fraudster a buffer.

Bank is the first big client to explore a ‘viable’ way to maintain PSC usage post-2020.

The domino effect of HSBC’s IR35 plan is underway, as two more clients impose ‘cease and desist’ PSC policies.

Nine contractor outfits join this website in calling our next PM to nullify both the Loan Charge and IR35 reform.

What your advisers, lobbyists and publications are today telling our country’s next prime minister.

Where firms are borrowing from the old IR35 of 2017, to prepare for the new in 2020.

A look at some of the big players implies all will not be lost when IR35 rules change; but playing catch-up still pervades.

Even a mix of the likely models, and motivators, can’t be banked on to beat IR35 from April 2020.

‘Both you and us are far from ready for this,’ taxman hears from adviser, accountant and contractor groups.

Dodgy payslips (and damn good sellers) are helping keep the NHS’s rogues in rude health.

Only one working day left to object to the biggest assault on off-payroll workers in two decades.

Not being part of a team is good for your status; and even better for your demons.