Kate Cottrell at OTS?

[Sockpuppet]

Has Kate from Bayer and Cottrell gone to the OTS or is this me reading it wrong?

OTS

Kate Cottrell, at the Office of Tax Simplification, said all the available facts and figures on IR35 were not sufficiently objective or comprehensive to use as a basis for any “easy answers”.

[administrator]

Has Kate from Bayer and Cottrell gone to the OTS or is this me reading it wrong?

OTS

Bauer & Cottrell

KUATB!
IR35 expert hired by tax unit :: Contractor UK - Contracting News and Guides

[thunderlizard]

It is a great line of reasoning. Implement a tax law that's too complicated to understand. Set up an office to simplify tax laws that are too complicated to understand. Declare that you can't begin to simplify it, because it's too complicated to understand.

[Pondlife]

IMHO there are two sides to this;

As a +ve someone who understands the current complexities and why it doesn't work is involved.

As a -ve someone whos livelyhood is based on its current complexity is involved.

or really

[amcdonald]

So someone who makes a living from IR35 fudges the findings from the OTS report

Its like asking Turkeys if we should ban christmas

[d000hg]

But if it changes they make money advising us the new best way to do things.

[TimberWolf]

Not sure if the location of the report was cited, if not here it is:

Can't be arsed to read it myself at the moment, but I noticed it discusses integrating income tax with National Insurance, possibly as part of a longer term structural reform.

[BolshieBastard]

So someone who makes a living from IR35 fudges the findings from the OTS report

Its like asking Turkeys if we should ban christmas

Is it ****!

But carry on.

[v8gaz]

I believe the technical term in official circles is 'conflict of interest'.

[AtW]

If Income Tax is merged with NI (both of them with employer paying 0 extra) then you won't need IR35...