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IR35: what happens to the 90%?

Jason Collins (Pinsent Masons) highlights the measures that personal service companies need to put in place to minimise the effect of not complying with the IR35 rules.

The changes to the off-payroll working rules being introduced in April 2020 present numerous challenges for medium and large businesses. Getting it right is going to involve a large measure of resource skill and judgment. It may also require a large measure of tact and ‘after care’ because these changes have the inherent propensity to give rise to disputes between client engager agencies the workers and their personal service companies (PSCs) and potentially HMRC. The draft legislation introduces (for the public sector as well) a formal process for giving status determination statements to workers. It is important to step back and recognise the human element to this – or risk further aggravating the situation.

HMRC’s response to its...

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