Private Sector IR35 Reform News

Not many advisers are in agreement about what the football referees’ status replay means for contractors.

Returning to a path well-trodden, the taxman is policing PSCs’ payrolls, potentially as a 'way-in’ to probing IR35.

Mid-sized clients exposed as treating off-payroll rules as a covid add-on, with most not tracking or tracing contractors for IR35.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak accused of not understanding the tiny enterprises which the economy needs.

Umbrella contractors are the worst off, but the PM’s new 1.25% levy is set to sting almost all in UK contracting.

An off-payroll reviewer says engagers are climbing mountains to reach outside IR35 determinations.

Answers demanded as HM Courts & Tribunal Service fluffs off-payroll legislation, taking the taxman’s haul to £135million.

The taxman, the ultimate setter of deadlines, embarrassingly misses the cut-off to overturn a tribunal’s outside IR35 judgment.

Statement of Works users on official alert to ‘make sure you’re applying the rules correctly.’

More of the same, some of the new and a fair dose of ‘we told you so?’ It’s all part of today’s ‘pick and choose’ IT contractor jobs market.

Some Olympic-style results are emerging from HMRC’s off-payroll game – but the public sector won’t win any medals for IR35 compliance.

Contractor umbrella companies say the union has got it wrong, again, although all agree ‘bad apples’ must be weeded out.

It’s nice to think lenders are watching the courts for direction on their customers’ status. Shame they aren’t.

CEST puts it at 56%; we put it at 72%. But the chunk of not caught rules is as low as 26%. And some job ads carry no status whatsoever.

Peer accuses the Revenue’s top officer of being the disliked Biblical tax collector, notorious for washing his hands of a grave decision.

The tech recruiter says a contractor hiring increase of 17% comes despite off-payroll 'concerns.'

The strange, ‘complex’ case of the contractor outside IR35, put inside IR35; who disagreed, only to rubbish a sub clause which a judge backed.

'Juicy fines' tipped to bite contractors’ agencies and umbrellas breaching April’s KID requirement.

The April rules have helped bring the UK’s supply chains to crisis point, says the RHA.

Experts say a genuine right to send another in your place still proves self-employment, albeit not in isolation.

The taxman likes killing two birds with one stone, so beware your furlough probe turning into an IR35 investigation.

Even by the taxman’s own figures, Check Employment Status for Tax is still not fit for purpose -- advisers.

Taxman forced to reveal that at just a little over its halfway point, his IR35 tool swallowed a lot -- almost £2million.

Studies, surveys and snapshots? Keep ‘em coming. But three channels will provide the real answer – and soon.

Stats indicate departments have more B2B openings than pre-reform. All the signs suggest companies will follow suit.

Get your client’s view of things, and get it early, regardless of which set of off-payroll rules affect you.

It’s not business-as-usual. But limited company contracting is far from on its knees.

A Nationwide IT contractor who worked as a project manager falls short by 'fine margins.'

‘Client put me outside IR35 -- I’m alright Jack.’ But are you, really?

A Single Enforcement Body is welcomed, but not unreservedly and with qualms over when.