After a big build-up and rising hopes of sanity breaking out within government ranks, the amendment produced by Conservative back-benchers and led by David Davis MP came to nought: completely unsupported by the Labour party who sat on their hands en-mass and did nothing to recognise the scale of the problem. This is disappointing as […]

After the recent House of Lords Economic Affairs Finance Bill Sub Committee hearing, its Chair, The Rt Hon. the Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, wrote to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Rt Hon.Jesse Norman MP. The letter, which can be downloaded from the government website here is an extremely well crafted indictment of the […]

IIM member, Shaun Taylor MIIM, is asking if fellow members would be interested in joining him in offering some pro bono expertise to companies suffering through the governmental responses to the current international Corona-virus pandemic. The Institute is happy to circulate Shaun’s notified missive. You can respond to it using Shaun’s contact points in the […]

Yesterday, the Chancellor found a way of supporting the self employed with a c.£6.5bn (or 0.3% of GDP calculated by Capital Economics) package to help them the viral storm. The idea is to offer taxable grants of 80% of previous income up to £2,500 a month to those already in the self-assessment system and with […]

The Institute of Interim Management (IIM), the pioneering UK professional body representing Interim practitioners, is pleased to announce a new collaboration formed with the Australasian Interim Executive Association, (AIEA). This latest development in the Institute’s twenty-year history represents the start of a new chapter in the IIM’s objective of supporting the growth of Interim Management […]

With the appointment of Rishi Sunak this week as the new UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, will we see a change in the approach to IR35 from HMRC? Will this be the man to roll back 20 years of HMRC missionary zeal to try to extract more ’employment tax’ from the freelance community? Unlikely. If […]

Reported in the Daily telegraph, the House of Lords is to launch a probe into the ‘off payroll’ tax reforms (IR35) scheduled to be launched in April. The House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Committee will scrutinise the impact of planned changes to the IR35 regime before they come into force in April. The inquiry will […]

We are partnering with Robert Walters in a short survey on the interim market and are asking all members to take just a few minutes to complete the survey here The results will be aggregated and shared publicly but please rest assured that your individual entries remain anonymous as you would expect. Thank you for […]

IR35 is about the government, and HMRC and the Treasury in particular trying to clamp down on what they see as tax avoidance. This has gone on since Gordon Brown was chancellor, has changed over the years to try to make the regulation evermore ‘watertight’ and has achieved a significant degree of unfairness, much uncertainty […]

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