Congratulations to Practicus who came top in the 2020 ISP Poll and to Anthony Lewis from Tile Hill who came top in the Consultant Poll. A great achievement by both. Many thanks to everyone who participated in this years IIM Interim Management Survey – the full Survey will be published w/c 13th July. In the […]

Tomorrow, during the debate on the Finance Bill, Sir Edward Davey, ‘interim’ Lib Dem leader is tabling an amendment requiring the government to scrap the IR35 regulation reforms, originally planned for this April and delayed to 2021. Reported in City AM, Sir Edward is quoted as saying: “Self-employed people face an unprecedented threat to their […]

This week saw the IIM present a webinar as part of the NEC’s Festival of Enterprise series, focusing on the benefits of using professional interims within the SME community. “With 60-70% of all SMEs being clustered in the most hard-hit economic sectors as a result of the current lockdown, positioning what is, perhaps, the most […]

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 […]