Contractors who supply the NHS through limited companies will likely move to umbrella companies before April’s IR35 reform comes into force, a health service IT recruiter predicts.Contractors’ next best alternative is to leave the public sector or the NHS for the private sector instead, says Don Tomlinson, managing director of NHS IT staffing firm max20.Tomlinson sounded aware that contractors who don’t act before April will have a third option -- stay as a limited company and accept the … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2016
No More Hiding
Two things in the coming weeks are certain;1. Christmas is on its way2. We will soon be in 2017“You can’t hide” (from the above), and nor can providers continuing to operate in murky waters (the net continues to close). Compliance is King – ePayMe understands this. Ensure you are engaged with a payroll partner whose reputation precedes them whilst delivering a “customer first” mentality.ePayMe, along with their client base are working tirelessly to ensure 2017 starts off at … [Read more...]
HMRC reveals plans for new public sector IR35 legislation—industry responds
This Monday saw the release of the HMRC’s draft finance bill, detailing the reforms as to how the IR35 legislation must be operated in the public sector from April 2017.There have been strong reactions from industry bodies to the Government’s new ‘Draft provisions for Finance Bill 2017’, nearly 400 pages of new tax legislation setting out the draft provisions for technical consultation, including changes to National Insurance contributions, clampdown on salary sacrifice contracts for new car … [Read more...]
NHS boss ‘orders a stop to payments to PSCs’
Hospitals have been ordered to simply stop paying external managers through personal service companies.Jim Mackay, chief executive of health service regulator NHS Improvement, reportedly issues the order in a letter he sent to hospital leaders on Tuesday.Seen by the Times, the letter states that interims in leadership roles can be hired only if they are set clear goals and held to account for failure to achieve them.The criteria come after Mr Mackay wrote there is sometimes either … [Read more...]
Do you operate within the Public Sector?
Last Monday saw the release of the HMRC’s draft finance bill, detailing the reforms as to how the IR35 legislation must be operated in the public sector from April 2017.There have been strong reactions from industry bodies to the Government’s new ‘Draft provisions for Finance Bill 2017’, nearly 400 pages of new tax legislation setting out the draft provisions for technical consultation, including changes to National Insurance contributions, clampdown on salary sacrifice contracts for new car … [Read more...]
HMRC, are the gloves off? Is there a storm brewing?
Offshore scheme users face requirement to notify HMRC. Contractors can have their say on their incoming requirement to notify the taxman if they use an offshore structure with evasion “characteristics” which its creator failed to declare.Under proposals published last week, the parties behind such “complex offshore arrangements” structures must inform them to HMRC and provide a list of clients using it.But if the creator (or promoter) fails to declare the arrangements -- which the … [Read more...]
Don’t be left in the dark about your Self-Employed Status
For many years being Self Employed meant working for yourself with no input from anyone else. Gone are the days of “cash-in-hand” as HMRC are clamping down on the whereabouts of Tax and NI for these services. If you are actively sourcing your own work for yourself and have no input from another source then you can be classed as self-employed, if however, you rely on an agency to source you this work then you are classed as employed and so will need to be PAYE or Limited status.PAYE can be … [Read more...]
ePayMe Launches Christmas Stopmotion
The ePayMe elves have been hard at work moulding clay figures and building sets to create our wonderful Christmas greeting.Two Little Schnauzers is a short animation about two naughty Schnauzers decorating the ePayMe office, but ending up with catastrophic results.The video has taken influence from ePayMe's office dogs Charlie and Marley who often spend their days, hard at work, chasing each other around the office, lazing in the sunshine and getting cuddles and scratches from all … [Read more...]
HMRC off-payroll changes put recruiters in firing line
Recruiters fear “ill-conceived” changes to the rules regarding off-payroll workers will have a negative effect on the industry and could place some agencies on the wrong side of the law.Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his Autumn Statement that the responsibility for operating IR35 off-payroll working rules and paying the correct tax will shift to the body paying the worker's company, potentially the recruitment agency.The new rules mean that when a worker provides their services … [Read more...]
ePayMe partners with The Recruitment Network
We're happy to announce we have partnered with the exclusive The Recruitment Network and become a platinum member of The Recruitment Network Club.The Recruitment Network is a new company derived from Innergy founders James Osbourne and Gordon Stoddart.They saw a gap in the market to supply a service for leaders of business to come together and collaboratively help each other and improve performance, which in the long run, can increase efficiency and profitability - it's the ultimate … [Read more...]