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IR35: Answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions
Kevin Barrow and Frances Lewis, of Osborne Clarke's Workforce Solutions Sector practice, answer the IR35 questions that employers and staffing companies are asking. The questions indicate the line of thinking and concerns carried by these…
Majority of UK contractors are ‘outside IR35’, but big companies are still making…
Being self-employed is often a personal choice led by personal circumstances or an innate entrepreneurial drive to carve out your own career and destiny - you do what you love. But in the month leading to April 2021, many freelancers and…
IR35 could spark more power in the hands of umbrella companies and less for freelancers
Once IR35 comes around next year, the entrepreneurial spirit of the freelance economy could be driven out of the UK, leaving contractors and freelancers to have little choice than 'become employees' to umbrella companies - and pay for the…
Hiring companies & IR35: Does recent news mean that umbrella companies should not be used?
Recent reports that a final amendment to the IR35 legislation means that staffing companies or end-users, who rely on so-called umbrella companies to pay contingent workers, will technically become the "fee-payer".
In other words, the…
Inside IR35 – Are contractors paying over the odds to indirectly cover ENI and umbrella…
Limited company contractors may need to look to smaller companies and startups for future work so that they can determine their own destiny, ensure their correct IR35 status, and avoid weekly umbrella company fees they cannot afford. The…
Self-employed and scared: millions in the UK are on brink of ruin and policy is at the heart of it
Conditions for economic growth, are 'not a mystery', says the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak. But if current policies continue and the Chancellor goes into austerity mode, ignores the…
IR35: HMRC could change its tactics overnight
Businesses should be prepared for the HMRC to change tactics on IR35 if current actions are anything to go by, according to Penny Simmons, a tax risk expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out- Law News.
"Businesses should…
The Paul Hawksbee case: Exclusivity doesn’t pay off
Paul Hawksbee, one half of Talksport's Hawksbee & Jacobs, the hilarious afternoon sports show, will not be laughing over the HMRC's successful overturn of an IR35 case at Upper Tribunal involving the sports presenter.
The latest…
Chancellor not budging on offering new schemes for UK’s ‘excluded’
Chancellor Sunak shows no signs of budging on conscious and previously made COVID-19 support scheme decisions that have impacted millions of excluded self-employed people.
Hiring companies: millions of freelancers’ fates are in your hands come April 2021
Tax reform must reflect the modern workforce, which is increasingly made up of independent workers who are self-employed. Close to 5 million people, not including millions of gig workers.