HARVEY NASH IR35 SURVEY 2019

A contractor in the construction industry has successfully appealed an HMRC ruling that he was an employee, after a first-tier tribunal found he was not employed for IR35 tax purposes – prompting experts to warn about ‘complex’ IR35 cases increasingly being brought before the courts. ...

Samantha Mann looks at the subject of parental bereavement, a new statutory period of leave and pay that is due to go live from April 2020.22nd Jan 2020First introduced as a Private Members Bill back in 2017, the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 became law in September 2018 and it...

A joint letter from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and 14 UK recruiters has been sent to Sajid Javid stating that the limited review of IR35 currently in process will not achieve much change and to delay the implementation until 2021.The letter sent to Sajid Javid, Chancellor of...

The HMRC have released an update to the off payroll working rules.To increase compliance with the existing off-payroll working rules (IR35), medium and large organisations in all sectors of the economy will become responsible for assessing an individual’s employment status and determining whether th...

The Government says that company car drivers choosing a pure electric vehicle will pay no benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax in 2020/21.In its long-awaited response to its review of WLTP and vehicle taxes, to which Fleet News is listed as a respondent, HM Treasury has binned the previously pub...

Everyone is moaning about IR35 and Off-Payroll Working regs, but how many people are going out of their way to help bring attention to potentially help to stop it?This petition is on behalf of Contractors/Freelancers urging government to abolish IR35 and to undertake a holistic review of tax on free...