Employers will now be responsible for determining the employment status of independent contractors in relation to tax, with the potential to become liable to account for that tax themselves if they ...

The off-payroll rules (IR35) aim to stop individuals from avoiding employee status for tax purposes (and thereby reducing the income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) payable) by ...

April 2020 sees the expansion of IR35 from the public sector to all businesses. Does the regulation mean freelancing as we know it will come to an end? New research from bedigitaluk, has revealed that ...

IT contractor groups have welcomed the coalition government's pledge to abolish IR35, the unpopular tax guidelines that were introduced to try to stop tax avoidance. The Professional Contractors' ...

The government has signalled its intention to repeal the controversial IR35 tax avoidance reforms from April 2023, and the news has been warmly welcomed by the IT contractor community. Chancellor ...

The new chancellor Jeremy Hunt has scrapped the IR35 reform repeal that was planned by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng. Mr Hunt made a number of changes to Mr Kwarteng’s mini-budget, which resulted in ...

IR35 campaigners have welcomed changes made by the Inland Revenue in the way it assesses whether someone is genuinely self-employed -- a move that could mark a thawing in relations between IT ...

One year on since the major reform to the Off-Payroll legislation for the Private Sector in April 2021 (more widely known as IR35), we can see it has caused chaos for hiring companies, recruiters and ...

The chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves is being urged to review the anecdotal jump in public sector spending caused by the roll-out of the April 2017 IR35 reforms, as she sets about closing the ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tax paid by freelancers is soaring in the wake of controversial reforms to pay rules, known as IR35, as thousands more ...

Today’s headlines underline the dilemma facing the Treasury as it prepares for next month’s Budget. On the one hand, there are reports that new Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been forced to promise that ...

IR35 changes will come into force this month, after a delay was put in place last year as a result of the pandemic. The off-payroll working rule changes, HMRC has said, are designed to ensure fairness ...