Government body finds IR35 too taxing
Last week it was reported that UK Research and Innovation, a public sector body, was required to pay ÂŁ36m to HMRC for unpaid levels of IR35 tax. This is reported to have followed an investigation into 285 contractors engaged by UKRI as monitoring and assessment officers, and it follows a string of reports of government bodies being caught for not addressing IR35 correctly.
Agency Worker Regulations – here to stay

The Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) were introduced over ten years ago, and even now are regularly overlooked. There may have been indications that these regulations may not last, but a government announcement last Friday shows that AWR is here to stay, with no proposals to change. When first introduced there were dramatic claims that these regulations threatened […]