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Companies House to Get New Charging Powers

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCT) Bill is making its way through Parliament and will change the role and purpose of Companies House (CH), providing them with the powers requested to improve their registry information accuracy and support the government’s efforts to tackle economic crime. There has been plenty of preparatory work going on […]

2024 Legislation to ‘Correct’ IR35 Related Double Taxation Anomaly for Engagers

Will this lead to fewer freelancer usage ‘bans’ by organisations afraid of the costs of an HMRC intervention and finding that their ‘outside IR35’ status determination is challenged and found to be ‘inside’? The potential impact of the legislation change has been discussed in a recent article in the ‘Freelancer Informer’ and can be found […]

HMRC Continue to Pursue Precedent Setting with 3 High Profile IR35 Cases

Since Chancellor Brown in the late 1990s started chasing what was regarded as ‘lost’ NICs, the IR35 regulations have continued their development and increasing complexity to avail the Exchequer with as much tax as possible from the freelance community in the UK. This has proved an uphill struggle for them in many respects as the […]

Kwarteng Quashes Latest IR35 Changes

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Today, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwazi Kwarteng, announced his ‘mini-budget’. This ought to be a strong candidate for understatement of the year. Sat within the 42 page document