Nothing new on IR35 to stop April’s reform leaves contractors assessing Budget 2021’s other non-announcements and announcements, to see if the chancellor was a friend or foe. So a CJRS extension, a small company tax rate, and no DISS…
Rishi Sunak broke with tradition by not uttering ‘IR35’ once at today’s Budget 2021, unlike almost all Spring and Autumn fiscal statements by chancellors of late. In what the contractor sector says is a tacit admission that the new off-payroll…
Madam Deputy Speaker, A year ago, in my first Budget, I announced our initial response to coronavirus. What was originally thought to be a temporary disruption to our way of life has fundamentally altered it. People are still being told…
Following the devastating impact of the covid-19 pandemic, chancellor Rishi Sunak is tomorrow tasked with setting out an economic roadmap for the recovery of the UK economy at his Budget 2021. With the prime minister’s lockdown-leaving roadmap depending on four…
Contractors with just one major client could be hit by a reported plan by the chancellor to go further at Wednesday’s Budget 2021 than merely wave through private sector IR35 reform. Infuriating contractors on social media at the weekend, the…
Contractor’s Question: I was engaged on an outside IR35 basis – my contract makes that clear. So can you explain why for the first time this month, my submitted invoice was paid as inside IR35? That’s a status I’ve signalled…
Limited company contractors working outside IR35 are widely having their renewal or end date brought forward to a decision-day of March 31st, ahead of the new off-payroll rules biting on April 6th. Other PSCs — whose clients have actually decided…
It came as no surprise that HMRC appealed the decision of the First-Tier Tribunal in Athol House Productions Ltd, also known as the Kaye Adams case, and similarly foreseen, much of the grounds of appeal focussed on it being a…
Having their hands tied in an already tight situation is far from what limited company contractors would choose as we approach a new IR35 on April 6th, but that may be the reality for some PSCs using agencies where there…