Not seeking a repeal of the OPW rules is a wasted opportunity. And since 2017, the UK has known plenty about ‘wasted opportunity’ — by leaving its contractor workforce shackled.

Six off-payroll working areas are screaming out for improvement, regardless of which political party gets there first, if at all.

Employers will now be responsible for determining the employment status of independent contractors in relation to tax, with the potential to become liable to account for that tax themselves if they ...

The off-payroll rules (IR35) aim to stop individuals from avoiding employee status for tax purposes (and thereby reducing the income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) payable) by ...

A nurse who worked through her limited company was wrongly found to be both a worker and an employee, the Employment Appeal ...

The government has signalled its intention to repeal the controversial IR35 tax avoidance reforms from April 2023, and the news has been warmly welcomed by the IT contractor community. Chancellor ...

A tweak to how the IR35 tax avoidance legislation works means that from 6 April 2024, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) can no longer be accused of over-collecting tax from non-IR35 compliant public and ...

An IR35 case liable to £243,324 in tax repayments is being reconsidered, five years after a tribunal concluded that the contract belonged outside IR35. Between 2010 and 2015, Richard Alcock provided ...

April 2020 sees the expansion of IR35 from the public sector to all businesses. Does the regulation mean freelancing as we know it will come to an end? New research from bedigitaluk, has revealed that ...

Matthew Lawford, director of tax recruitment at AJ Chambers, asks employment tax expert Alastair Kendrick: is IR35 a ticking time bomb for the accounting profession? The IR35 rules came into force in ...

Today’s headlines underline the dilemma facing the Treasury as it prepares for next month’s Budget. On the one hand, there are reports that new Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been forced to promise that ...