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Simon Moore

Simon writes impartial news and engaging features for the contractor industry, covering, IR35, the loan charge and general tax and legislation. He also edits and commissions viewpoint pieces and ‘how to’ guides from the industry’s leading experts.

He trained under NCTJ-approved journalism tutors before working in the newsrooms of leading consumer, local and national media titles.

He is the managing director of Moore News Ltd, whose clients include trade publications, digital start-ups and FTSE-listed recruiters.

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Despite talking a good game, agents quietly admit off-payroll effects will last between one year and forever.

April’s off-payroll rules compel professional services, banking, telecoms, oil, digital, and investment clients to no longer hire PSCs.

Chancellor sent a ‘strongly-worded’ letter, following a stock reply boding badly for Budget 2021.

‘Not great’ for temporary techies, but ‘massively better than might have been expected’ – REC.

Off-payroll study: the ticking clock and HMRC’s track record aren’t instilling much confidence in the incoming findings.

Helping directors with their dividends would be irresponsible and unfair to taxpayers, claims HMT’s Jesse Norman.

Taxman’s decision to offer some leniency around Sunday’s self-assessment deadline is welcomed, broadly.

On a long list reprimanding the Revenue, peers admonish the taxman for using workers caught by disguised remuneration.

Taxman told to come up with explanations and offerings for the millions stung by both covid and IR35.

An ‘incensed’ Rebecca Seeley Harris vows a written rebuttal over HMT’s 'misunderstanding.'

MPs want Loan Charge contractors to show the taxman chasing them over the goodwill season.

Chancellor looking increasingly isolated in his decision not to help limited company directors.

Two new updates to the furlough scheme are ‘easily overlooked, and obviously were by the government.’

Pandemic ‘survival’ mode snookers off-payroll comms from reaching most PSCs.

‘Reasons and channels’ prevent your internet data being trawled, even if your CJRS usage is deemed suspicious.

Or don’t and risk having tighter rules, potentially on masks, supermarkets and WfH.

Far from fertile conditions to hire people permanently played into contractors’ hands just before Christmas.

The type of contract you’re on shouldn’t affect your place in the vaccination queue, but it might - REC.

Neither the need to make up the covid-19 deficit nor the tendency to target contractors bodes well for eight weeks’ time.

A longer CJRS is tagged up as a Christmas gift to help firms through a tougher January.