HMRC asked for examples showing IR35 processes don’t work: JLJ Services is a good one
HMRC has been asking other members of the IR35 Forum for concrete examples of why IR35 processes don’t work. The JLJ Services case is a good one.
Contractor rate reduction déjà vu: contracting rates under threat again, ten years on
Contracting rates may be threatened, just when they’d almost recovered from the dotcom crash. But not all contractors need take the pain.
IR35 is not only here to stay, but HMRC’s compliance activity can only increase
Good progress by the IR35 Forum is potentially a cause for real concern by contractors, as it signals a new era of greater compliance.
Contractors are not quite inflation-proof, but they can choose when to take pay rises
Contractors are not immune to inflation and its impact on real pay, but they have much greater control over their income than employees.
How to guarantee you won’t win that next contract, and always lose the best contracts
ContractorCalculator just advertised for a new salesperson. The response was shocking & highlights the importance of doing what the contract ad asks.
IR35 and new FOI revelations: Where are HMRC’s missing IR35 millions?
Like characters in a detective novel, IR35, P35 and new Freedom of Information admissions reveal a mysterious tale of HMRC’s missing tax millions.
Contractors are the solution to reignite Europe’s growth, innovation and prosperity
Contracting is thriving throughout Europe, not just in the UK, and contractors are key to getting Europe out of the economic mess it finds itself in.
Limited company contractors claiming AWR rights have little chance of avoiding IR35
Limited company contractors can’t have their cake and eat it: asking for rights under the Agency Workers Regulations is asking for trouble with IR35.
HMRC’s 12 IR35 scenarios: a real basis for discussion, or just boxing-in contractors?
Contractors could see HMRC’s IR35 Forum initiative to create 12 IR35 scenarios as a sound basis for discussion, or as further restricting contracting.
The ‘conduct regs’ conundrum: are you really a contractor if you don’t opt out?
Contractors enjoy the protection of the ‘conduct regs’, unless they choose to opt out. But would a real contractor want the rights the regs provide?
Self assessing AWR inclusion might be a dangerous tactic for clients and agencies
Contractors don’t yet know much about AWR, as a ContractorCalculator survey has confirmed. So, is pushing self-assessment of AWR status a wise move?
Threats into opportunities: being forced into contracting can be a positive move
Workers entering the contracting sector unwillingly will often turn the threat to their livelihoods into career opportunities.
Contractors should not be seen as a soft target by an HMRC keen to close the tax gap
Contractors have a part to play in filling the UK’s £35bn tax gap, but the burden should be shared by all taxpayers, including large companies.
Agency Workers Regs: No, Prime Minister. Your publicity stunt is too little, too late
Downing Street’s alleged review of the Agency Workers Regulations is too little, too late. Things are bad enough without this last-minute confusion.
IR35 time warp: LibDems take a jump to the left
A new LibDem IT policy paper ignores the government’s decision to retain IR35 and tries to reopen the ‘abolition’ debate. Have we entered a time warp?
There’s no ‘I’ in contractor: successful contracting takes a team of all ages
Potential contractors ask our Contractor Doctor two recurring questions: am I too young or am I too old to go contracting? The answer is always ‘no’.
There’s no worker identity or disguised employment crisis; just a tax loss crisis
Governments are getting hot under the collar about worker misclassification, not because of workers’ welfare, but because tax revenues could plummet.
Primary Path: the contractor was not the one that got away
Contractor Phil Winfield was not the one that got away in the Primary Path case. It was the HMRC inspector who insisted the case went to tribunal.
One contractor’s paranoia is another contractor’s risk management
Contractors can risk manage many aspects of their contracting career to help them avoid pitfalls, and to manage and correct plans as they change.
Government won’t change its “obscene” waste on IT until it changes its own mindset
Government IT practices are criticised again, but its own policies deliberately prevent alternative suppliers, including contractors, from competing.
IR35 Forum – what’s the best we can expect?
IR35 is to be better administered, which in reality means better enforced, because HMRC would not be doing its job properly if it were otherwise.
The quantum fog of the Agency Workers Regulations may be lifting for contractors
Contractors trying to peer through the quantum fog of the AWR hoping for answers will be pleased to learn that IR35 is, in theory at least, unrelated.
Contract and contractor numbers are increasing, but will AWR derail the recovery?
Contractor use is increasing confirms yet another labour market survey, which is good for the UK’s economy. At least until the AWR comes into force.
Engineers: Your Country Needs You! (to go contracting)
Engineers are leading pretty much every demand league, skills shortage list and ‘hardest role to fill’ table in nine leading labour market surveys.
Contractors have won the first battle over IR35, but HMRC is preparing to win the war
Contractors may have won the first, 10-year-long battle over IR35, but now HMRC is getting ready to win the war with a determined fight-back.
‘In-business’ tests can’t tell employees and contractors apart in a knowledge economy
Contractors are knowledge workers and represent a category of both worker & business that in-business tests can’t tell apart, as the ECR ruling shows.
The quantum physics of the Agency Workers Regulations have left everyone perplexed
Contracting is starting to resemble quantum physics, where all things are considered to be in two different states at the same time. Just like AWR.
Contractors could see Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) become the new IR35
The Agency Workers Regulations could bring an added layer of complexity, or even absurdity, to contractors and contracting.
IR35 Forum: will ‘better administration’ really change anything for contractors?
Can the IR35 Forum really influence HMRC and change contractors’ lives for the better, or are we seeing a coalition resumption of the Blair years?
Legislation with consequences: agencies unable to identify best contractor suppliers
The news that a staffing company may be facing a possible transfer of debt claim from HMRC highlights the unintended consequences of new legislation.