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		<title>IR35 will multiply tax avoidance and increase business costs</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax avoidance]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[The chorus of disapproval from accounting and tax experts continues over Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s budget decision to impose public sector-style IR35 reforms on the private sector, Director Of Finance magazine reports, with warnings that they will drive accountancy costs for processing contractor payments up by 10%. Under the new rules, all medium-sized and large private businesses will, as of April 2020, become responsible for determining the employment status of all the limited company contracting professionals they engage. Small businesses will be exempt, although it is not yet clear precisely how they will be defined. On Monday, directly after the budget announcement, Julia Kermode, CEO of one of Britain’s largest umbrella [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More experts respond to private sector IR35 extension</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[Following the Chancellor confirmation in this week’s Budget that IR35 reforms will be rolled out to the private sector, the common verdict emerging from experts representing the staffing and professional contracting industries is that he was right to defer the reforms until 2020, but wrong to proceed with them in the first place. The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE), however, was wholly critical. Referring to the rollout as a “smash-and-grab” approach to the country’s smallest enterprises and “short-termism on steroids”, IPSE CEO Chris Bryce said that the Chancellor had “forced the self-employed into a holding pattern of despair, as they await the introduction of controversial tax [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>APSCo &#8211; uncertainties ahead for permanent and contracting professionals</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crystal Umbrella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2019]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brexit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contract placements]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[New survey data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) suggests that Brexit-related uncertainties among UK hirers are stalling vacancies in the professional jobs market for both permanent and contingent/contracting talent. While there was a year-on-year growth of 9% in permanent placements in September 2018, professional recruitment firms participating in the survey revealed that vacancies (demand) declined for both permanent and contracting talent over the same period. Demand for permanent professionals slipped by 2%, while demand for contracting talent dipped overall by 5%. Even so, demand for contracting professionals in the financial services sector leapt by 20% year-on-year. The growth in permanent placements was largely attributable to a sizeable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Committee slams BBC’s ‘disgraceful’ handling of IR35</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/parliamentary-committee-slams-bbcs-disgraceful-handling-of-ir35/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Department of Culture, Media and Sport Committee has sharply castigated the BBC for forcing staff to work through personal service companies. The influential Parliamentary Committee also recommends that the corporation should now offer compensation to the affected presenters, some of whom are facing tax and NIC bills of hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Committee’s report (BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2017–18: Equal pay at the BBC) condemned the broadcaster for inflicting “life-altering” financial and emotional consequences on the individuals affected. The BBC had, between 2007 and 2012, deliberately engaged presenters whose contracts were likely to be more than six months or worth over £10,000 via PSCs. The Committee [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers turn to contractors as economic confidence plummets</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Despite plummeting confidence over prospects for the economy amongst British employers, their confidence about proceeding with investment and hiring decisions for both permanent and temporary/contracting staff remained in positive territory this month, the latest JobsOutlook survey from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) reveals. Between September and October 2018, the net balance of employers adopting a positive outlook for the UK economy plunged by 9% to -14, the lowest since February this year. Even so, confidence about investments and hiring decisions in their own firms remained stable and firmly positive for the third successive month in a row, remaining at a steady +15. However, almost half of the employers polled [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>IPSE welcomes inflation drop but warns of IR35-induced slowdown</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/ipse-welcomes-inflation-drop-but-warns-of-ir35-induced-slowdown/</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE) has welcomed last week’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) data showing an unexpectedly sharp fall in inflation but has warned that any benefits to freelancing and contracting professionals could be offset by a slowdown in their sector caused by reformed IR35 rules hitting private businesses. The latest ONS data shows that Consumer Price Inflation (CPI), the most-watched measure of inflation in the UK, tumbled from 2.7% in August to 2.4% in September. Most economists had forecast a much more modest drop to 2.6%. Mike Hardie, Head of Inflation at the ONS, explained that food had been the chief downward pull [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stakeholders should prepare now for private sector IR35</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/stakeholders-should-prepare-now-for-private-sector-ir35/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crystal Umbrella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Employment law expert Adrian Marlowe has responded to reports from the BBC that the Treasury is finalising plans to extend controversial public sector IR35 reforms to the private sector by urging employers, recruitment agencies and contractors to prepare for the impact now, including the likelihood that it will prompt a big freelancer transfer from limited companies to umbrella companies. The public sector has already witnessed a significant switchover to umbrella companies following the introduction of the reforms in the public sector last April, which have reduced the number of contracting professionals working outside IR35 via their own limited companies. Many, upon receiving an inside-IR35 determination, left the public sector altogether [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Another judge finds against a CEST “inside IR35” determination</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/another-judge-finds-against-a-cest-inside-ir35-determination/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[A tribunal judge has rejected HMRC’s online Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool by ruling that a contracting professional was, according to case law, self-employed and not inside IR35 as the controversial test had determined. Business analyst Tony Elbourn was contracted by the Met Office between August 2017 and January 2018 and appears to have been paid by the recruitment agency that sourced him, Qualserve Consulting Ltd. Although details of the case are sparse, it seems that Elbourn was deemed by CEST to be inside IR35, a status that led him at the end of the engagement to make a claim for unlawful tax and national insurance deductions from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Chancellor’s plans for private sector IR35 draw further fire</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/chancellors-plans-for-private-sector-ir35-draw-further-fire/</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[Further responses have emerged to media reports that the Chancellor is planning to announce in his forthcoming budget an extension of controversial public sector IR35 rules to the private sector. The public sector reforms met with enormous criticism from the professional contracting and recruitment sectors for the rushed manner in which they were imposed in April last year. The rule changes have driven widespread confusion, with a number of prominent public sector organisations imposing blanket inside-IR35 determinations on all contractors driving a sizeable exodus of professional contractors away from the public sector altogether. In other instances, important projects have been seriously delayed. The recent Government consultation implementing the rule changes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Contractor groups slam Treasury plans for early IR35 rollout</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/contractor-groups-slam-treasury-plans-for-early-ir35-rollout/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sarah]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Indications that the Chancellor is planning to extend controversial public sector IR35 reforms to the private sector, possibly with an announcement in the next budget, have been met with angry responses from the professional contracting community. Kamal Ahmed, Economics Editor at BBC News, yesterday reported that the Treasury is now finalising plans to extend the reforms to self-employed people in the private sector. He cites Treasury estimations that a third of contracting professionals operating via personal service companies are in reality de facto employees and should be paying more tax. HMRC, he reports, estimates that the public sector reforms raised an additional £410 million. In addition, Ahmed refers to Treasury [&#8230;]]]></description>
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