New research highlights confusion amongst self-employed regarding Off-Payroll reforms

One in five UK sole traders are needlessly making plans to address the impact of proposed Off-Payroll reforms despite the legislation not affecting them, new research has revealed. According to a collaborative survey conducted by professional membership body the Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA) and cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent, one in five (18%)…

Why HMRC lost yet another IR35 appeal to a presenter

Written by FCSA Business Partner, Larsen Howie In Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’, Lady Bracknell famously says, “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”. The same can be said of HMRC’s recent successive defeats at the First-Tier Tribunal at the hands of, first, Lorraine…