Dave Chaplin, founder of contractor website Contractor Calculator, said: “As HMRC progresses its plans to reform IR35 in the public sector, contractors are yet to see anything materialise from the taxman’s attempt to create an online test tool that it claims will provide “upfront certainty” over the employment status of the user.
“Plain and simple, it’s a naïve attempt to achieve the impossible. Building a simple online tool can’t be done due to the inherent complexity. The finest legal minds in the last 17 years haven’t been able to boil down decades of employment case law into an IR35 questionnaire that provides a binary result.
"How HMRC is going to achieve this in time for April 2017 is anybody’s guess. If it was possible, it would already have been done by now.”
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