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Reports of The BBC preparing to offer £1,000 to each of contractors it engages to help them with the costs associated with IR35 has been met with caution.
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Several recent cases involving the 'gig economy', including Pimlico Plumbers, have raised questions around the wider business model of freelancing and what exactly is 'self-employment'.
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The Government has defended the fact that CEST (Check Employment Status for Tax), its online IR35 status assessment tool, doesn't take into account one of the 'fundamental factors' when assessing status.
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A Supreme Court ruling about a plumber's employment status has confirmed that he was a worker and not a self-employed contractor of Pimlico Plumbers.
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The continuing rise of self-employment shown in the latest labour market statistics reflects the new opportunities it is creating, according to freelancer group, IPSE.
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The Government's plans to clamp-down on 'off-payroll' workers in the private sector has been widely condemned by trade bodies and industry experts.
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HMRC has failed to answer four million calls in the past year - and the controversial proposals to extend off-payroll IR35 rules to the private sector would be a further drain on already stretched resources.
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The Government's long-expected and much-feared consultation on so-called tax avoidance in the private sector has been launched.
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More than half of assessments carried out by HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool obtained a 'IR35 does not apply' result. This indicates that thousands of contractors are being wrongly taxed due to unlawful blanket assessments made by public sector hirers who could now face costly legal challenges for unlawful deductions from their wages.
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The controversy continues to rumble over the ill-fated public sector IR35 tests, as another survey shows flaws in the system with more than half those questioned revealing no IR35 compliance tests have been carried out.
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