Late September into mid-October has been a turbulent time for the Government and a confusing time (at best) for taxpayers, after former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal statement. On 17 October, the new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, reversed around two thirds of the tax cuts in the fiscal statement, including complicated changes to the controversial off-payroll working rules known as IR35.
IR35 was controversial from the start, with what is now the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE) seeking permission for a judicial review of IR35 in 2001, which they lost.
After efforts to help taxpayers understand the rules more easily during the coalition-Government era, the IR35 tax rules were reformed in the 2016 Budget, when businesses were given more responsibility for determining the tax status of their contractors.
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