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 […]

Welcome to Wilton & Bain, who became our latest Affiliate in September. Wilton & Bain provide Executive Search. Interim Management, Specialist Hires and Leadership Advisory services to businesses going through transformation and change. Wilton & Bain Interim Management is the original interim management/consulting hybrid and provides the senior expertise that businesses need now to deliver […]

author: Sajid Javid; 2009 Even before our new Chancellor became an MP, he wrote an article offering the view that the ‘off payroll’ tax, or IR35 to all in the trade, was a very silly tax and should be removed from the statute books. He now has a magnificent opportunity to put that view into […]

Some of you may well have signed up to this petition, that is asking for “Repeal IR35 legislation in Public Sector and proposed Private Sector rollout. You will note that there has been very little of any consequence modified from the previously published draft issued earlier this year. It therefore contains a number of unacceptably […]

As so many people in the interim profession are aware, Ad has been for many years a devoted member, director and past chairman of the IIM. His latest contribution to the work of the Institute has been his continued input on the annual ‘provider survey’ – now 10 years old. Ad has seen it grow […]

The IIM submitted its latest contribution to the off payroll consultation from HMRC recently, using transmission slightly faster than indicated in the picture above. We can but hope that the comments and suggestions bear more fruit than has been the case over recent years. We continue to press HMRC to recognise that all career interims, […]

The IIM is delighted to welcome Drax Executive Interim as new Institute Affiliate. Marking this special occasion, IIM co-Chairman Tom Brass said: “I am delighted to welcome Drax Executive Interim as our most recent new Affiliate. We have had informal contacts with Drax over the years, and this marks a new era in our relationship […]