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The on-going case involving broadcaster, Adrian Chiles and a £1.7 million challenge to his IR35 status from HMRC, has been referred back to the where it started five years ago.
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Freelancers, contractors and consultants working via their own limited companies have been urged to take it upon themselves to check their IR35 status – in a move which could help ensure their clients set status correctly and in turn, compliantly boost their take home after tax by anything up to 30 per cent.
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Footballer turned TV pundit, Phil Thompson, is the latest media personality to fall foul of HMRC’s IR35 challenges.
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We are so sorry to hear of the recent passing of IR35 expert Kate Cottrell of Bauer & Cottrell. Kate was a well-respected expert in the IR35 field since the early days in the late 1990s and worked closely with many freelancer organisations, including as one of our 'Ask An Experts'.
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HMRC has given its much criticised online status assessment tool, CEST, an update with a low-key launch.
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Taxes paid by workers who were incorrectly categorised as outside the scope of the off-payroll working rules, IR35, should be offset against the tax due from the organisation that engaged them to protect the public purse, says the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).
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The question of 'double taxation' has recently engaged the contrcting sector with hopes that the Goverment will act to remove the 'unfairness' of the duplicate payments.
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The Government has suggested that if it was to end the ‘double-taxation’ of IR35, the intention is that these measures would come into effect in April 2024.
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The Government announced a package of technical tax policy proposals on 27 April 2023 that is aimed at supporting its ambition to simplify and modernise the tax system, tackle non-compliance, make the tax system fairer for taxpayers and to make the customs system work better for traders.
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With IR35 in the news again, agency representative group, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies, (APSCo) has reiterated its calls for changes to off payroll rules (IR35), including the need to introduce an offset mechanism to ensure double taxation isn’t unfairly impacting staffing firms.
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