All PSCs who want to keep their ‘jobs’ will be IR35-caught, with no rate rises to compensate.
Three weeks of face-to-face talks are underway, ahead of no more limited companies at the bank from March.
Disappointed but not surprised, says a Barclays PSC, preparing to be part of the bank’s contractor exodus.
The number of clients ‘ceasing and desisting’ PSCs doubles in a day from three to six. And ‘more will follow.’
Ex-inspector says the first shot against clients calling time on PSCs was fired when the Revenue wrote to the 1,500.
It involves a giant of news, but this FTT case’s deciders have been massively underreported. Until now.
As April 2020 nears, recruiters are reluctant to advertise your engager as exempt (even if they are).
Judges just about go against Gosling, Willcox and Eades -- the BBC’s faces of forced limited company usage.
IPSE: Clouds of uncertainty aren’t shifting, and just one of them could bring the house down.
Lehman and AWR were the last time growth in the appetite for freelance IT skills was so weak.
View a copy of the letter received by GSK contractors from HMRC regarding their IR35 status.
Opening up is the key to unlocking what you need to put your house in order, and your partners’ houses, for April 6th.
Almost 90% fear HMRC doesn’t ‘get it’; new guidance is ‘woeful’ and advisers say ‘confusion’ will reign.
Why ruining 1,500 contractors’ bank holiday weekends (and potentially their livelihoods), takes more balance than you might think.
Pay up by the 19th or argue why you’re not caught by IR35, the taxman tells the pharma’s PSCs.
Two big off-payroll tax provisions will force firms to play policeman, hot potato and pass the parcel.
No education package, and no CEST update, may be why ‘cracks are starting to show’.
What this website and ten other contractor groups have told the PM and chancellor.
Having binned both the net migration target and Tier 1’s cap, the government is told Tier 2 salary must be next in its sights.
Government told resisting a rush job on contractor tax reform would stem labour market uncertainty.
New government disappoints by churning out the ‘same old stuff,’ despite 25,000 fresh objections.
Harvey Nash on how prep for IR35’s revamp means meetings, questions and audits (all involving you).
Bank to ‘undoubtedly’ keep engaging PSCs, but it still wants 5,000 external techies on-payroll.
The Insolvency Service’s CET are like a lightning bolt; scary, but unlikely to strike you down.
‘Only very valued PSCs will get access to the (toothless, flawed) system; the rest won’t.'
The case of the doctor who did a commendable job underlines the injustice imposed, and incoming, on others who work independently.
‘We are analysing your feedback’ really meant ‘We are dismissing if it doesn’t meet our three aims.’
Not enshrining the tool hasn’t taken the heat out of how ‘useless’ version 2 is expected to be.
Come 2020, it looks as if a channel open for contractors to independently contest bad IR35 decisions will close.
A help to PSCs? A trigger for more blanketing? Or just more complexity? Experts think it all.
