BET's scrapped

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

HM Revenue & Customs: IR35 Business Entity Tests

Is this HMRC admitting they were wrong

[DaveB]

HM Revenue & Customs: IR35 Business Entity Tests

Is this HMRC admitting they were wrong

Worth a but makes me wonder what they will come up with instead.

Is it worth trying to get a low BET score just before they close the scheme to avoid any IR35 investigation for a few years?

[The Spartan]

That's good news, let's hope this isn't an attempt to come up with something more complicated.

[TykeMerc]

That's good news, let's hope this isn't an attempt to come up with something more complicated.

Oh I fully expect them to come up with BET v2. The old ones were an obvious "be worried so best treat yourself as inside IR35" tactic, they won't give up such an easy win scenario.

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

The tests have no legal standing so I've never seen the point in them!

Is it worth trying to get a low BET score just before they close the scheme to avoid any IR35 investigation for a few years?

That wouldn't work, the article states that the BETs will not be considered for any IR35 enquiry opened after 6th April next year.

[DaveB]

The tests have no legal standing so I've never seen the point in them!



That wouldn't work, the article states that the BETs will not be considered for any IR35 enquiry opened after 6th April next year.

Ah, misread it. Fair enough.

[NotAllThere]

The review found the BETs were not helping customers as they're:
used very little
not fulfilling their intended purpose

The intended purpose of course being to put more companies into IR35.

[The Spartan]

Can't they go and bother the construction industry instead? Both my brother and brother in law are raking it in and they never seem to pay much in tax or NI

[tractor]

...

That's good news, let's hope this isn't an attempt to come up with something more complicated.

Worth a but makes me wonder what they will come up with instead.

Is it worth trying to get a low BET score just before they close the scheme to avoid any IR35 investigation for a few years?

For those that did not read until the end of the announcement

HMRC will also withdraw the example scenarios published with the BETs from 6 April 2015. There are no plans to replace the BETs or example scenarios.

[DaveB]

For those that did not read until the end of the announcement

Doesn't mean they won't bring in something else entirely. I read that as meaning the existing tests themselves (the actual questions) won't be replaced.