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Welcome to the Mar 2019 edition of our Newsletter. The IR35 consultation into extending the public sector changes into the private sector was launched this week. The Loan Charge debate, the catalyst of which was IR35, is heating up, with questions raised at PMQs, and a barrister accuses HMRC of misleading the Treasury. The BBC and HMRC are playing blame tennis for the IR35 mess they are in. CEST is undermined again at tribunal. Other than that, these new IR35 reforms are going great!
Private sector contractor clients have 12 months to mitigate the threats posed by HMRC's Off-Payroll proposals, warns ContractorCalculator.
HMRC's CEST tool is further discredited as judge rules controlled doctor Naryan was no employee because no mutuality of obligation (MOO) existed.
HMRC tells MPs in Public Accounts Committee hearing that CEST was not at fault for hundreds of retrospective tax bills issued to BBC freelancers.
The PAC has an opportunity to hold HMRC to account for its application of CEST and the Off-Payroll rules. Here are 20 questions that need to be asked.
Firms who make tax deductions based on 'inside IR35' assessments of existing contracts risk being found in breach of contract, warns Martyn Valentine.
HMRC has misled the Treasury on the facts concerning the Loan Charge, leading tax barrister Keith Gordon has warned the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
Annual membership provides you with unlimited IR35 assessments and insurance, helping you achieve fair tax treatment.
ContractorCalculator publishes a new whitepaper alerting MPs to 23 misleading claims peddled by the Treasury about the Off-Payroll (IR35) proposals.
HMRC has failed to substantiate allegations made during a recent IR35 Forum meeting of misrepresentation against the contractor press.
What is CEST, why it came into being, and why it has been widely condemned for being 'not fit for purpose'.
The government has opened its consultation on implementing off-payroll working rules from April 2020.
HMRC's consultation on IR35 is already under fire as critics accuse the government of underestimating the complexity of the task ahead and risking missing the opportunity to make the whole process more user friendly for a key sector of the UK workforce.
Private companies are facing a “ticking time bomb” if they wrongly apply changes to tax law due to be implemented next year, experts have warned.
Almost a million self-employed people could pay higher tax without gaining benefits like holiday and sick pay, despite the Government's Taylor Review saying this should be addressed.
Organisations hiring off-payroll contractors will be responsible for handling disputes over tax status and ultimately liable for missing tax payments once IR35 reforms hit the private sector, HMRC has said.
HM Revenue & Customs is canvassing views about how best to press ahead with the introduction of the IR35 reforms to the private sector, and is urging those likely to be affected by the move to start getting ready.
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