When IR35 was introduced, the government claimed it would create fairness in the tax system. What it actually did, from 2017 and in earnest from 2021, was dismantle one of the UK's most productive ...

You may have noticed, HMRC is on a roll. Revenue & Customs seems to be winning all its recent IR35 tribunals and, in the main, doing so emphatically. Several cases have made their way to the Upper ...

The "interesting" case of the nurse who won at the ET, but who's now lost at the EAT, contains some key admissions for Labour, as well. An Employment Appeal Tribunal case involving a qualified nurse, ...

Nigel Farage has doubled down on Reform UK's proposal to scrap IR35, framing it as the showpiece policy of a new campaigning organisation, Small Business for Reform. Calling company directors "up and ...

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Beware, because a last-ditch push from disguised remuneration schemes looking to cash-in before April 2026’s closing date is ...

Self-employment isn’t a tax dodge — it’s a benefits gap. Fixing it with ‘parity’ would cost the Treasury more than it’d raise ...

A few good reasons why the ‘token gesture’ should avoid the axe probably need offsetting against alignment and adjustment ...

An unpacking of the Court of Appeal upholding HMRC’s consecutive wins over a ‘careless’ umbrella, thrice ruled to have ...

Pressure by UK plc to water down late payment rules must be ignored, or else contractors face another half-measure, dressed ...

A soon-to-be published review of settlement terms will reveal HM Treasury still deciding the fate of loan charge contractors, as even its ex-HMRC author says he won’t have ‘first voice.’ ...

More updates than new entries on HMRC’s list is actually a good thing, not that the named necessarily feel shamed, say top tax advisers.