Stupid IR35 question

[Jog On]

With all this stuff about business tests and letters being sent out but case law staying the same.....

....can't they just change the law about what makes one inside/outside instead of all this posturing?

[ecc83]

Where's the fun in that?

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Easier, quicker, more cost effective - never going to happen

[gingerjedi]

With all this stuff about business tests and letters being sent out but case law staying the same.....

....can't they just change the law about what makes one inside/outside instead of all this posturing?

Or make it fair™ so IR35 caught 'employees' get some compensation for lack of 'employment' benefits.

[BolshieBastard]

All HMRC are interested in is raising the tax take off people. Everything else is just lip service.

[psychocandy]

Change of law requires it all going through parliament again. Not going to happen in the short term.

[SueEllen]

....can't they just change the law about what makes one inside/outside instead of all this posturing?

Nope if HMRC scare enough people they will get more tax out of them easily particularly if the number of self-employed people is rising.

[SussexSeagull]

I thought when the IR35 'replacement' (as it was originally mooted as) was going to be backed by legislation but I think somewhere during the process the government decided this was too much like hard work or, more likely, didn't want to be seen as anti-business so let the HMRC take the hit.

Ironically some of the most blatant examples of Friday to Monday arrangements were in the public sector.