Category Archives: Employment Status

HMRC Targets Construction Industry tax abuse

HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed it is taking on an extra 100 officers to target tax abuses in the construction industry. HMRC said it is doubling the number of specialist officers cracking down on labour providers who fail to … Continue reading

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Self Employed Targetted

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched a campaign to target and crack down on suspected fraudulent tax credit claims from the self-employed. Letters have started to land on the doorsteps of 12,000 self-employed people who are claiming tax credits. … Continue reading

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IR35 Victory for Contractor

An engineer working on a contract basis for Airbus UK won his appeal against HMRC’s determination that he should be taxed as an employee under IR35 rules rather than as self-employed. Following a hearing in Bristol in November, the First … Continue reading

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Self employment registration – major delays

HMRC have issued an apology noting that the turnaround times for newly self-employed people to register will increase to eight weeks, between now and October 31 2010. It seems that processing times for paper form 64-8 and registrations for self-assessment … Continue reading

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HMRC Tax Investigations – debt collection

Anyone who has a debt with HMRC, whether it be from a Tax Investigation, employer compliance review, employment status review, PAYE/NIC/CIS or Self Assessment you need to take heed of what is happening regarding HMRC debt collection agents. To begin … Continue reading

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IR35 – when is abolished, not abolished …?

All herald the end of IR35, the complex and utterly futile attempt at raising extra revenue by re categorising self employed individuals as deemed employees – not quite! Although the Small Business Minister, Mark Frisk said in an interview with … Continue reading

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IR35 Employment Status – Coalition v. HMRC

So in an effort to simplify the tax position of self employed individuals, the Coalition has announced that they are to review IR35, which in theory is good news. Far too much time and money has been taken up with … Continue reading

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Employment Status – it’s as simple as TMS, or is it!

Announcing that you have a cunning plan to avoid Employers NIC is one thing, telling the world it has HMRC approval is another thing altogether but this is the latest idea by TMS for commission-only  individuals. Now it strikes this … Continue reading

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HMRC win award for …?

Now all those cynics out there will have their own idea of what this could be and there are a few classics that they would be amply qualified to collect, whether it be over zealous use of information powers, intrusive … Continue reading

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Tax Investigations – HMRC’s Self Appraisal

HMRC have published their report on “Protecting Tax Revenues 2009″ or as I will call it Tax Investigations – HMRC’s Self Appraisal, as the report is very defensive, akin to a struggling employee worried about their job, writing their self … Continue reading

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