Outside IR35 now even harder to prove PGMOL ruling

[willendure]

Germany has regulations along the same ideas as IR35, but implemented differently. Agencies providing staff that will be under the management and control of the client must be licensed and pay an annual license fee. They must also have a lot of capital to safeguard their ability to keep paying wages. The fines are very high. VW put all freelance (as in "outside IR35") staff in teams entirely made up of freelancers and in a separate building so as to not risk a mixup. They never even got to see the perm & temp staff. The same approach could possibly work in the UK too.

In Germany, all farmland with a river must have a fence at least 5m from the rivers edge so that no grazing can take place right up to the water. This stops a lot of polution from animal manure getting into the water. It also acts as a buffer to mop up other farm run off such as excess fertilizers and other chemicals. It allows the rivers edge to exist in a natural state with flourishing wildlife along the entire river corridor.

The same approach could possibly work in the UK too. If only we could do just about anything with an ounce of common sense.

[escapeUK]

I'm not worried at all. Labour and their public sector WFH workers are so bone idle they prefer easy victims. Why would they waste their time with long drawn out court cases when the contract market is mostly dead anyway, when they could just put NI up another 1% or 2%? Or start charging it on pensions? Or remove capital gains allowance completely, or set the rate to be 30%? Or increase fuel or alcohol duty? Lots of easy unavoidable ways that don't require legal battles.

That's what will happen and the tiny number of IR35 cases will be conveniently filed under too few victims, too little money to steal.

[sadkingbilly]

I'm not worried at all..

So why the incessant whining??