Renewed concerns about the effectiveness of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) much-maligned IR35 tax status checker tool have been raised following the disclosure that in nearly one in five uses it failed ...
Ever since HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) made its debut just one month before the roll-out of the public sector IR35 reforms in April 2017, the tool has been ...
Former HMRC inspector Danny Batey on everything contractors need to know about the taxman's IR35 compliance activity, as ...
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by IR35 compliance specialist IR35 Shield has revealed that usage of HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool fell by a further 43% during ...
The complexity of accurately determining someone’s IR35 status can leave a “big grey area” for businesses, according to Seb Maley, CEO of Qdos. In a collaboration between HMRC and IFF Research, a ...
Organisations do not always have the information they need to make accurate worker status decisions under IR35 requirements and it is too difficult for workers to challenge decisions they feel are ...