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True cost of IR35 to contractors and economy
Business insurer Simply Business surveyed 250 self-employed people in different professions, including IT, business consultancy, and project manage...
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Brexit and IR35: Are the days of the self-employed pilot numbered?
Let's get to the good news first. The UK Civil Aviation Authority has launched a simplified process to allow pilots who transferred their licence a...
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IR35: Care sector platform Florence to only support PAYE workers - is it worth changing status?
Florence, an online platform that connects care homes directly to nurses looking for extra shifts, has reported that it will no longer be supportin...
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Contractors get the chop
ContractorCalculator urges in a press release for agencies and end-clients to terminate contractor contracts before April When Freelance Informer r...
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IR35: Freelancers urged to update their contracts before April
In advance of IR35 legislation coming to fruition this April, now is the time to comb through your freelancer contracts to ensure that they are an ...
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IR35: legislation changes in Budget that freelancers may have missed
Important changes to the new IR35 regime were announced in the Budget (3 March 2021), according to an Insights report from the Osborne Clarke Workf...
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IR35: Royal Mail contractors to lose independent status and pay umbrella fees
The Royal Mail will likely place its off-payroll workforce, even those with a questionable or 'likely' inside IR35 status, into pay-as-you-earn (PA...
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IR35: HMRC to name and shame deliberate defaulters
The HMRC has said that it will identify and correct non-compliance with the off-payroll working rules by using a 'robust risk assessment'. The tax ...
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Are Contractors now King? Uber Supreme Court judgement has wider implications for all UK freelancer rates and contracts
The 'Uber' Supreme Court case judgment Aslam & Farrar v Uber if tested wider could instigate a major shakeup of the UK's freelancer and contra...
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IR35 and the government's broken equalisation argument: "Employment law doesn't cover self-employed people because they are their own boss."
Could the Treasury's argument for private-sector IR35 tax equalisation scheme of freelancers be flawed? In some ways verging on the unjust? Will ce...
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IR 35 and UK's gig and contractor economy: expect an exodus to umbrella companies in 2021
Gig workers and multi-sector contractors, popularly linked with cab-hailing, delivery platforms and staffing agencies, will see big changes in how ...
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Slack IR35 communication could spur contractor walkouts and skills shortage
More than half of the 1400 contractors surveyed by IR35 compliance specialist, Qdos, said that they had not been contacted by their end client rega...