IR35

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has hit back at claims it is wasting taxpayers’ money by not hiring contractors on an outside IR35 basis, after its annual accounts suggested the majority of the temporary workers it used last year…

Non-departmental funding body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) must pay HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £36m in back-dated tax after a review of its IR35 compliance procedures uncovered historic errors in how it classified the…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is being applauded for its “pragmatic” approach to conducting an 18-month IR35 compliance check on a global manufacturing business that engaged around 300 contractors, with the vast majority working in…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed it could have a legislative solution to the long-standing issue of it over-collecting tax in instances where organisations have fallen foul of the IR35 rules by April 2024. The…

The government’s controversial IR35 tax avoidance legislation threatens to derail the UK’s bid to become a science and technology superpower, contracting authority Qdos has warned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the…

IT contractors and employment agencies are being urged to throw their weight behind a campaign that is calling on the government to “fix or ditch” its controversial IR35 tax avoidance legislation. The campaign, overseen by…

The UK economy is clearly still feeling the effects of the Covid-19 lockdowns, with government figures showing the number of economically inactive people in the workforce has risen markedly since the onset of the pandemic in Spring…

The financial secretary has come under fire for claiming that no additional costs were incurred as a result of the government announcing a repeal of the IR35 reforms and then U-turning on that decision 24 days later. Victoria…

Negotiating the UK government’s IR35 tax avoidance legislation remains the biggest concern for contractors in 2023, according to survey findings compiled using feedback from 700 freelance workers. The survey is a recurring piece of…

The extension of the IR35 reforms to the private sector in April 2021 came coupled with a promise that for the first 12 months the government would be taking a “light-touch” approach to enforcing the rules. For this reason, one…