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 […]

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 […]