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[Lewis]

Beaten to it ... http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...mployment.html

[Lewis]

So I got an email with this article this morning: Agency Legislation Will Stifle Self-Employment - Contractor Weekly

It says that

From 6 April 2014, a worker must be treated as an employee for Income Tax and National Insurance purposes if the worker
...
personally provides their services to the client
.... is, or can be, supervised, directed or controlled by someone as to how they do the work

and

From 6 April 2014, agencies must be able to prove to HMRC why the worker wasn’t treated as an employee. They will have to work with their client and the worker to get suitable evidence to demonstrate this.

From 6 July 2015 onwards, agencies will have to send HMRC reports that contain details of all workers and their payments for those they consider to be genuinely self-employed, with penalties applying where reports are late, incomplete or incorrect.

This all sounds very much like IR35 but the burden now being on the agency to prove the worker is not caught.

Does the the standard opt-out form get around all this?