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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostI've not been following the UK contractor tax scene very closely recently. Did IPSE take a position in the dodgy scheme folks? If so, hopefully they made sure to sharply differentiate them from honest contractors using the approximate approach of 11k p.a. salary, divis and CT, with or without pension.
If you are interested, please see the links below
IPSE urges government reconsideration on retrospective tax | IPSE
MPs increase pressure on Government's Loan Charge | IPSE
IPSE agrees with House of Lords report criticising HMRC’s 2019 Loan Charge | IPSE
"IPSE has long advised its members against using Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) schemes. However, the Government’s retrospective approach to this issue is clearly causing serious distress for many taxpayers and their families."Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostIf PCG and IPSE, kept out of the way, then that seems sensible enough.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostIf you are interested, please see the links below
IPSE urges government reconsideration on retrospective tax | IPSE
MPs increase pressure on Government's Loan Charge | IPSE
IPSE agrees with House of Lords report criticising HMRC’s 2019 Loan Charge | IPSE
"IPSE has long advised its members against using Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) schemes. However, the Government’s retrospective approach to this issue is clearly causing serious distress for many taxpayers and their families."
HMRC believe that "honest contractor" is an oxymoron and that everyone should pay whatever tax they decide. Since IR35 PCG had the first fight against HMRC with arctic. DTA had the second. LCAG have the third. HMRC are gearing up for the next round "the future of contracting" and the more we stand against the common enemy the better we will be. Not that I can ever see the various factions working together.
Of course, OldGreg is an oxymoron without the oxy. Agrees with everything assguru says. Claims to have lost a contract being undercut by a contractor using a scheme. Despite clearly being not up to the job. A honest, proper contractor gets the gig then negotiates on price. The contractor industry must be rid of these "johnny come latelys".
Still, OG must have some good blackmail piccies of admin to get away with the CUK posts that no-one else would get away with without a ban.....Comment
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Originally posted by GreenMirror View PostThe IPSE stance on HMRC and schemes is much appreciated.
HMRC believe that "honest contractor" is an oxymoron and that everyone should pay whatever tax they decide. Since IR35 PCG had the first fight against HMRC with arctic. DTA had the second. LCAG have the third. HMRC are gearing up for the next round "the future of contracting" and the more we stand against the common enemy the better we will be. Not that I can ever see the various factions working together.
Of course, OldGreg is an oxymoron without the oxy. Agrees with everything assguru says. Claims to have lost a contract being undercut by a contractor using a scheme. Despite clearly being not up to the job. A honest, proper contractor gets the gig then negotiates on price. The contractor industry must be rid of these "johnny come latelys".
Still, OG must have some good blackmail piccies of admin to get away with the CUK posts that no-one else would get away with without a ban.....Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostIf you are interested, please see the links below
IPSE urges government reconsideration on retrospective tax | IPSE
MPs increase pressure on Government's Loan Charge | IPSE
IPSE agrees with House of Lords report criticising HMRC’s 2019 Loan Charge | IPSE
"IPSE has long advised its members against using Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) schemes. However, the Government’s retrospective approach to this issue is clearly causing serious distress for many taxpayers and their families."Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostThis is problematic. iPSE should have thrown the dodgy scheme users under the bus (or ignored it) and concentrated on supporting the honest contractor model.Comment
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Originally posted by GreenMirror View PostPerhaps they were worried that HMRC would define "the future of contracting" to be "the past of contracting" using their time machine.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostMaybe. But it muddles the message that one man band Ltd contracting is legitimate, for IPSE to pitch in on behalf of the dodgy scheme spivs.
IPSE haven't done anything for or against the scheme users, They have, obviously, supported those opposing the HMRC approach, which is fine, and as MS said their advice has been to stay away from schemes for many years. They have not, as far as I know, expressed any opinion on the scheme users themselves, other than noting there were less than 100 out of their 20-odd thousand members involved.
Also - and again something that is routinely ignored - is that the people mainly caught up in now this are not the usual CUK customers but an awful lot of agency-led casual workers, especially in medicine and teaching, who do not even think of themselves as contractors in the first place and have been given absolutely appalling advice when the PS IR35 changes were dumped on them. Plus, of course, the media where the aim was for the employers to save lots of money by outsourcing their own employees.
Which of those groups would have joined IPSE do you suppose? Perhaps a lot more, arguably, if there wasn't a constant refrain on here and elsewhere about how pointless IPSE are and how they are only in it for the money - unlike all those other commercial IR35-related companies - and how the only real contractors are in engineering and IT.Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostIf you are interested, please see the links below
IPSE urges government reconsideration on retrospective tax | IPSE
MPs increase pressure on Government's Loan Charge | IPSE
IPSE agrees with House of Lords report criticising HMRC’s 2019 Loan Charge | IPSE
"IPSE has long advised its members against using Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) schemes. However, the Government’s retrospective approach to this issue is clearly causing serious distress for many taxpayers and their families."Originally posted by malvolio View PostDo you actually read what has been said or do you simply have problems with English?
IPSE haven't done anything for or against the scheme users, They have, obviously, supported those opposing the HMRC approach,
Can you not see how supporting those who oppose the HMRC approach is doing something for the scheme users? Now you may think that is OK and you're entitled to your view, but sort out your basic logic before flying off at others.Comment
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