The official "Autumn Statement 2015" AKA "End of Contracting" thread

[BlueSharp]

Can the goverment add the IR35 changes to the fiance bill without announcing it in the spending review?

The draft Fiance Bill is expected on December 9th. I'm expecting Div Tax, No T&S for IR35 caught and Tax Scheme, GAAR are already announced to be included.

[portseven]

I bet Capita and Co are rubbing their hands, I saw a lot of talk about digitising the government, as well as the cyber security stuff.

[RockyBalboa]

Can the goverment add the IR35 changes to the fiance bill without announcing it in the spending review?

The draft Fiance Bill is expected on December 9th. I'm expecting Div Tax, No T&S for IR35 caught and Tax Scheme, GAAR are already announced to be included.

Well if the draft is that early, we should be able to see if ER changes are included?

[rob s]

Possibly unrelated, but Halifax just lowered their contractor mortgage day rate multipliers as of this week as far as I can tell. This could mean they're expecting some reduction in contractor take-home.

[CloudWalker]

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

I bet Capita and Co are rubbing their hands, I saw a lot of talk about attempting to digitise the government, as well as the cyber security stuff.

All's well on the Capita gravy train, choo, choo..

[Gaz_M]

Why do people think we've got away with it?

December 9th is the next big day...

[OwlHoot]

sounds like either a) everyone did a great job of fending this off (thanks for all the efforts from me to those who have spent time on responding)

or b) they looked into it, saw it was harder than they thought and slammed the lid back down again

Either way, it's decent news, and I;m still very grateful for the time people invested.

or it is briefly summarised in Appendix 4b, footnote 5, of the forthcoming PDF someone mentioned ..

[jamesbrown]

The other potential big deal here is the following:

3.97 Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) review of employment status – The government has responded to the final report of the OTS review of employment status and is taking forward the majority of recommendations.

The recommendations are on p.11 here. It's impossible to interpret "taking forward the majority of recommendations" at this stage, because they are broad and comprehensive, but it's another thing to keep an eye on, and it is consistent with leaks about updates to the ESI test, for example.

[Eirikur]

or it is briefly summarised in Appendix 4b, footnote 5, of the forthcoming PDF someone mentioned ..

^^ This