Following their announcement in the Autumn Budget, the government have launched their consultation on tackling non-compliance with the off-payroll rules (IR35) in the private sector, which will run from 18/5/2018 to 10/08/2018.
It will come as no surprise to many that the government’s “leading option” is to extend the public-sector reforms of April 2017 into the private sector. There has been a feeling of dreadful inevitability surrounding this issue since the public-sector launch, and the consultation document has done nothing to lift it. HMRC continues to claim the shambolic public-sector reform as a success and they dismiss evidence to the contrary as “anecdotal” and “not matching HMRC’s experience''.Read more>>
