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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has vigorously denied claims that its new Employment Status Service tool is unreliable and inaccurate. HMRC released the online tool last week as a way to help organisations decide whether public-sector workers fall under IR35 tax legislation. It comes in advance of new rules for intermediaries, introduced to the pu...

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Philip Hammond used today’s Spring Budget to launch a series of measures aimed at boosting technical skills and productivity and raising tax contributions from workers who are self-employed or who operate through limited companies.  In the last “Spring Budget” before the Government moves the main annual budget to October, the Chancellor of the E...

  The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) reports that its lawyers have formally written to HMRC about the proposed IR35 rules expected to apply from 6 April 2017. “Use of an online tool has always been claimed by HMRC as fundamental to the success of its new policy to require public sector hirers and agencies to assess IR35 and, wher...