Originally posted by JohntheBike
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As you say, the situation with NHS consultants and the like may tip the balance. However, when dealing with IT contractors for example, they really don't care.
It was encouraging to hear of people in the public sector still managing to work outside of IR35.
Originally posted by jamesbrown
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CUK is completely unrepresentative of the broader contracting community. Even on CUK, there's probably a minority that know much about IR35.
Of the minority on CUK that know much about IR35, most of them understand that the time for protest has passed (although, TBF, they probably didn't do much in the interim, like actually read and respond to consultations
). The clue has been in the continuity over administrations and, more recently, in HMG's rebuttal of responses to their "consultations".
We're now in an implementation phase. No amount of gnashing of teeth and crying is going to change that; it isn't defeatism, it's realism. The whim of the next PM might upend things, but that seems like a long-shot. Also, no one can accurately predict the actual consequences of this reform N years down the line.
Of the minority on CUK that know much about IR35, most of them understand that the time for protest has passed (although, TBF, they probably didn't do much in the interim, like actually read and respond to consultations
). The clue has been in the continuity over administrations and, more recently, in HMG's rebuttal of responses to their "consultations".We're now in an implementation phase. No amount of gnashing of teeth and crying is going to change that; it isn't defeatism, it's realism. The whim of the next PM might upend things, but that seems like a long-shot. Also, no one can accurately predict the actual consequences of this reform N years down the line.
In reality for anyone who hasn't gone permie, moved abroad or are in a safe outside IR35 contract, then at this stage everyone needs to be making plans to adjust to the new normal.
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