Answers to ‘How often can a limited company contractor pay dividends?’ plus IR35, and ‘disguised salary’ considerations.

IR35 has not been an issue for me, as many of the qualifiers which would bring me inside IR35 do not apply. This could, of course, change in the future.

HMRC has revealed, via a Freedom of Information response, that use of its IR35 status checker tool is declining, as around 20% of users continue to get an undetermined response from it.

Explore how IR35 has a key part to play in HS2’s debacle and its impact on the project's contractors and timeline.

The headlines about HS2, England’s high-speed railway project, are bleak. Delays stretching beyond 2033, fraud investigations, cost overruns and ...

The chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged to review how much "non-essential" departmental spend has been generated since the introduction of the public sector IR35 reforms in April 2017 as part ...

A recent government report on IR35 revealed that £4.2bn in extra tax was generated since the reforms, but experts have warned that the impact “has been continually downplayed.” The off ...

The first major warning came from former HS2 contractor James Horabin in June 2018. In an exposé published by ...

By repealing IR35 reform, the government have effectively admitted that it has not worked. On the whole, it has made working as a contractor and engaging them as a business more difficult.

Under the current IR35/Off-Payroll Working (OPW) rules (Chapter 10, ITEPA 2003), medium and large companies are responsible for determining the employment status of contractors who work through a ...

Dave Chaplin, chief executive of advisers IR35 Shield, said that if the government had not made the change the issue would have led to legal action by businesses. He said: ...