Reply to: Mini umbrella firms costing UK taxpayer millions

[AtW]

An excuse for Sunak to cancel that 4k employment tax bonus for everybody

[vetran]

Private Eye is right wing? Really?

it was a joke when you as far left as the Beeb is sometimes then Stalin looks right wing.

[Jarman]

Poor HMRC can't get a break. They enforce ir35 and this pops up.

HMRC HQ - >

[Andy2]

Poor HMRC can't get a break. They enforce ir35 and this pops up.

[Whorty]

a right wing mag like Private eye discovering it? Only the way because of the unique way the BBC is funded can they discover such injustice.

Private Eye is right wing? Really?

[TwoWolves]

This problem has always existed but snowballed during the Blair/Brown years as trade unions decided they loved the Labour party and sacks of money more than their members. The fact that total taxation has been going up year after year as government liabilities swell hasn't helped either.

Sooner or later we will reach an en-pass where the cost of government will crush what is left of the private sector.

[mallisarealperson]

Could anyone with greater knowledge of tax loopholes than I please express an opinion on how this loophole could be leveraged or abused with regards to IR35?

It has got nothing to do with IR35.

It has got to do with nobody, especially the civil service wanting to employ people. And the resulting dodgy agency/umbrella scenarios that have been around in numerous forms over the last 15-20 years or so.

If companies employed people, a lot of this would go away.

And as has been said on this thread, in this case it is affecting people on or potentially below minimum wage.

[vetran]

Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind.

sadly this isn't contractors on £100k with accountants its security staff & nurses on near NMW.

[cojak]

Odd, my copies of Private eye have been high lighting that for months. Mainly due to G4S and the like doing just that for the 'Covid' operations. Why does the BBC have to claim the 'discovery'?

It's a preparatory piece for their File on 4 programme tomorrow night.

[cojak]

KUATB...

Don't be fooled by mini umbrella companies - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

[Disguised Contractor]

Could anyone with greater knowledge of tax loopholes than I please express an opinion on how this loophole could be leveraged or abused with regards to IR35?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind.

[saptastic]

never heard of them until recently saw this: https://www.contractoruk.com/umbrell...a_company.html

[vetran]

Odd, my copies of Private eye have been high lighting that for months. Mainly due to G4S and the like doing just that for the 'Covid' operations. Why does the BBC have to claim the 'discovery'?

a right wing mag like Private eye discovering it? Only the way because of the unique way the BBC is funded can they discover such injustice.

[NigelJK]

Odd, my copies of Private eye have been high lighting that for months. Mainly due to G4S and the like doing just that for the 'Covid' operations. Why does the BBC have to claim the 'discovery'?