These May 7th IR35 business tests

[BlasterBates]

Most contractors are borderline, except those who do fixed price, and will probably be in the medium risk category, then it's a matter of the details of your relationship with the client. In essence this test is irrelevant, it's down to your working practices.

If you do fixed price contracts then you can fill out the form and that's the end of the matter, for everyone else there will be an enquiry.

It doesn't really change anything because if you were doing fixed price contracts the enquiry would have stopped pretty quickly anyway.

[knight007]

interested to know what others are scoring on these tests? I scored 11, which is border-line medium risk.

[d000hg]

HM Revenue & Customs:Employment Status Indicator

The tool is working but several of the questions don't seem to have answers that fit me. I'm not a diver or a minister of religion, etc.

[Greg@CapitalCity]

Remember, its a test the HMRC feel they will use to determine whether or not to investigate for IR35 - its not an IR35 status test in itself.

This guide covers off what is expected to be published - it does not really seem all that useful, and given there are no changes to the IR35 legislation, will this new 'test' really make any difference at all?

IR35 business test – are you a high risk?

[Jog On]

Dodgy contractors probably wrote that.

Wasn't me :/

[Jog On]

Nothing yet chaps - last I heard it was just narrowed down to sometime this week

Ahh nice and muddy - in keeping with the rest of the ligislation. At least they're being consistent!

[Scrag Meister]

HM Revenue & Customs:Employment Status Indicator

Too slow, gave up waiting

[swamp]

I just finshed this one and my employment status appears to be:

Dodgy contractors probably wrote that.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Nothing yet chaps - last I heard it was just narrowed down to sometime this week

[Jog On]

I just finshed this one and my employment status appears to be:

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[Jog On]

I'd have expected a lot of noise and fanfare if they had been released...

Why isn't everyone taking this test and talking about it like with the PCG mock-up one? You'd expect the real thing to be a very big deal...

[jamesbrown]

IIRC, they said "shortly after May 7."

[Lumiere]

Are they ?

However, the tool can’t be used to check the employment status of some workers:

company directors and other individuals who hold office
agency workers
anyone providing services through an intermediary (sometimes referred to as IR35 arrangements)

[Unwitting Catalyst]

Laconic answers are usually the best

HM Revenue & Customs:Employment Status Indicator

[Jog On]

Did I miss them? Or are they delayed? Or are they insignificant?