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Andy Chamberlain

Andy is Director of Policy at the Association of Independent Professionals & Self-Employed (IPSE), the representative body for the UK’s self-employed community, including freelancers, contractors, consultants and independent professionals. He is responsible for IPSE’s tax policy and has a special expertise in labour market changes, employment status and IR35.

He is IPSE’s lead spokesperson on a range of policy issue and he recently gave evidence to the Lords’ Finance Bill Sub-Committee on the proposed rollout of IR35 to the private sector. He is currently working on the government’s response to COVID-19 and its impact on the self-employed, engaging with stakeholders both in government and more broadly on the financial support that is needed.

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A seemingly small Autumn Budget announcement is actually a big concern, and it’s not even the nearly double-figure rate that’s unsettling.

For contractors and other taxpayers, even celebrities, the government's reach growing is (for once) something to get behind.

Concerned for their wellbeing, Australia just gave employees a right to disconnect. Maybe the UK should do the same, but for its freelance consultants too.

Why Rachel Reeves saying ‘we will take on the tax dodgers’ sounds good in principle, but also has small companies quaking in their (HMRC-compliant) boots.

Not reinventing the wheel is fine for just 5% of the business community; for the remaining vast majority, it’ll just perpetuate abject unfairness.

Next time you hear the phrase the ‘party of business,’ you’d be forgiven for asking ‘which party is that then?’

HMRC no longer being free to continue on as a ‘non-ministerial department’ is important enough to warrant a place in our manifesto – IPSE.

IR35 is meant to deter disguised employment, not genuine freelancing, but something has gone badly wrong -- as Adams, Street-Porter and Moore are now finding out.

Our latest confidence index shows contractor daily fees doing well, despite short-term faith in their own ventures dwindling -- IPSE.

Despite being designed for permies, PSCs can enjoy the scheme, especially with a steer from their accountant.

10th November, 2023 | Successful Contracting

Contrary to the business department’s claims to justify its action, now would have been the perfect time to solve the UK’s status crisis.

The IR35 reform-induced trend of unwilling employment? Like PSLs and holiday pay, ministers owe it to work-seekers to intervene.

IPSE outlines the potential bolt-on to the furlough scheme which government has been told to adopt to help limited company directors.

18th June, 2020 | Coronavirus