Following The Conservative’s deal with The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), leading contractor tax adviser, Qdos Contractor, has highlighted the opportunity the new government has to make radical changes to the current tax system, and rethink the effect it has on the UK’s 2 million freelancers and contractors. Qdos Contractor CEO, Seb Maley outlined a number
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IR35: Contractor tax adviser issues caution over NHS U-turn
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Leading contractor tax adviser, Qdos Contractor, has issued caution regarding The NHS’s decision to perform a U-turn over placing its entire locum and contractor workforce ‘inside IR35’. While Qdos Contractor welcomed the recent backtrack, the contractor tax specialist also highlighted that this decision does not necessarily guarantee that all contractors now sit ‘outside’. Seb Maley,
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HMRC’s updated IR35 tool still not fit for purpose
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Despite recent updates to its Employment Status Tool HMRC needs to go back to the drawing board. This is according to Dave Chaplin, CEO of ContractorCalculator, an online portal that has become the UK’s expert guide to contracting, who has re-run the 21 historic IR35 test cases through the newly adapted tool to ascertain any
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IR35: NHS U-turn over blanket IR35 decisions for contractors
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Leading contractor tax adviser, Qdos Contractor has welcomed news today that The NHS has revised its decision to place all locum and contractor staff inside IR35. In ‘Working through intermediaries: IR35 update’, released today (30/05/2017) The NHS reveals they had ‘anticipated that providers would need to ensure that all locum, agency and bank staff were
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Contractors urged to seek IR35 status to resolve public sector confusion
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IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, has advised all contractors to check their IR35 status in order to resolve the confusion and uncertainty over the newly implemented public sector rule changes. From 6 April, the start of the new financial year, there was a change in the way IR35 status determinations
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IR35: Contractors predict public sector suffering as reform lands
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Changes to IR35 in the public sector enforced today, will hit major public sector projects hard according to 95 per cent of contractors. The responsibility for setting the IR35 status of public sector contractors now falls on public sector engagers, rather than contractors – 85 per cent of whom will stop working in the public sector should
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Appeal process needs clarifying ahead of IR35 changes in the public sector
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The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is concerned that workers may lose part of their income under imminent changes to IR35 employment status tax rules. The ATT has concerns about how the public sector will manage new rules requiring them to make IR35 employment status decisions from April 2017. A possible outcome is that a
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A small business owner’s guide to IR35
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Freelancing is now a credible, viable way for people in the UK to earn a living. And as a small business owner, it’ll become more and more common for you to engage the services of a freelancer on an ongoing basis. For example, to maintain your website or help with your accounting. You may not
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Contractors to shun public sector following Autumn Statement IR35 ruling
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Two thirds (66 per cent) of contractors are ‘very worried’ about the public sector IR35 tax reforms given the go ahead in last week’s Autumn Statement, according to new research from Crunch Accounting. Additionally, nearly half (42 per cent) would no longer work in the public sector as a result of the outcome. Philip Hammond
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Ten reasons why IR35 will never work for small businesses
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The best way to stimulate economic growth is for government to stop legislating and step aside, allowing businesses to embrace the benefits of the flexible workforce and contractors and freelancers the freedom to contract. HMRC is meddling in the legal system with IR35 and people should have the ‘freedom to contract’, the freedom to agree
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