Private Sector IR35 Reform News

No duty on engagers to notify exempt status means PSC won’t know if IR35 is in play or not.

Few curveballs but no delay, as the biggest shake-up to contracting is going ahead from next April.

Radio sports writer scores a narrow win over HMRC’s hattrick of status arguments.

The three reasons clients give for not sorting your IR35 status will go as Finance Bill arrives tomorrow.

Despite new replies on IR35 not adding much, one contractor is taking a stand -- alongside 12,000 others.

Delaying April’s rules is the only way to avert more Morgan Stanleys, policy-makers told.

A 25% siphon from your pay adds up to fraud, and may build the fraudster a buffer.

Bank is the first big client to explore a ‘viable’ way to maintain PSC usage post-2020.

The domino effect of HSBC’s IR35 plan is underway, as two more clients impose ‘cease and desist’ PSC policies.

Nine contractor outfits join this website in calling our next PM to nullify both the Loan Charge and IR35 reform.

What your advisers, lobbyists and publications are today telling our country’s next prime minister.

Where firms are borrowing from the old IR35 of 2017, to prepare for the new in 2020.

A look at some of the big players implies all will not be lost when IR35 rules change; but playing catch-up still pervades.

Even a mix of the likely models, and motivators, can’t be banked on to beat IR35 from April 2020.

‘Both you and us are far from ready for this,’ taxman hears from adviser, accountant and contractor groups.

Dodgy payslips (and damn good sellers) are helping keep the NHS’s rogues in rude health.

Only one working day left to object to the biggest assault on off-payroll workers in two decades.

Not being part of a team is good for your status; and even better for your demons.

Agree or disagree with IR35 changing in April? There’s only a week left to speak up.

What chance for you and your client next year if even a big bank is struggling with IR35 reform now?

New IR35 Forum minutes show HMRC knows about trying to insert parties (and clauses) to nullify 2020’s reform.

Bank puts contracting’s viability in doubt, as all direct PSC hires will cease from September.

‘Creditable’ freelancer defeats HMRC’s £124k tax bill, without Substitution and with Mutuality.

HMRC's bid to hold an IR35 enquiry open indefinitely is thwarted using its own vows.

Another April 2020 change will add to the admin-compliance burden, but PSCs might actually like this one.

PSCs will agree 2017's ‘lessons haven’t been learned’ but, for 2020, decisions have been taken.

Treasury says CEST is going to change; rejects blanketing as common and denies loan charge link.

Judges join the TV star in annoyed puzzlement at a taxman in 'cloud cuckoo land.'

Overview of the chancellor’s small offerings, including reaction to the big ‘no-show.’

As IR35 is reform largely set, and Brexit isn’t, contractor accountants aren’t expecting much.