In oral evidence given to the PAC on HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 21-22, HMRC’s Jim Harra confirmed that the two-week period between when it was announcement of the repeal of the 2017 and 2021 off-payroll working rules and the subsequent announcement that those rules are to be retained did not have any operational impact on HMRC’s work. ‘One of the advantages of the 2017 and 2021 response from HMRC’s point of view is that it gives [HMRC] a smaller number of people whose compliance we have to manage, because we can hit one to many when we go to an engager who might employ 20 or 30 or 50 contractors’, Harra said.
In oral evidence given to the PAC on HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 21-22, HMRC’s Jim Harra confirmed that the two-week period between when it was announcement of the repeal of the 2017 and 2021 off-payroll working rules and the subsequent announcement that those rules are to be retained did not have any operational impact on HMRC’s work. ‘One of the advantages of the 2017 and 2021 response from HMRC’s point of view is that it gives [HMRC] a smaller number of people whose compliance we have to manage, because we can hit one to many when we go to an engager who might employ 20 or 30 or 50 contractors’, Harra said.
