Following changes for off payroll working in the Public Sector, many contractors may have found themselves assessed as working inside IR35. Many end clients do not want the hassle of deciding each individual case and so have placed a blanket ban on all contractors. Many of these contractors cease operating through their own limited company, and opt instead for umbrella employment as their agency and end client have suggested. For a contractor working inside IR35 this is usually the better … [Read more...]
Attention Social Care Workers!
Don't Miss Out - Optimise Your Net Pay In the ever evolving legislative landscape, working within Social Care you may be entitled to offset expenses. This is particularly relevant when providing home care support and/or when your work takes you across multiple sites. At ePayMe, we recognise how hard you work for your money, and we work hard to ensure your net pay position is the best it possibly can be. Of course, we do this with compliance front of mind and ensure all deductions and … [Read more...]
NHS IT agency foresees PSCs moving to brollies
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...]
No More Hiding
Two things in the coming weeks are certain; 1. Christmas is on its way 2. 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...]
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...]
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...]
HMRC ‘unwilling to give any steer’ on IR35 changes
The taxman is “unwilling to give any steer” on his approach to April’s IR35 changes to the very parties who will be liable and responsible for those changes, an agency body alleges. This current reticence by HMRC to provide the parties with the “real detail” on how the new rules will work makes it probable that it won’t be released until next year, says APSCo. The agency body reached this conclusion after it held a meeting with the Revenue’s policy officers Neil Chattell and Julie De … [Read more...]
HMRC launches new employment status unit
Recruiters have been urged to review their practices to ensure individuals are not being misclassified as self-employed. The warning comes from employment lawyers after it emerged HM Revenues & Customs is launching a specialist unit to investigate firms suspected of withholding employment protection from workers, by using agency staff or calling them self-employed. The move was confirmed last week in a letter from financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Ellison, to Labour MP Frank … [Read more...]
Pension Re-enrolment is here!
We can’t believe that it’s been 3 years since we first completed Auto Enrolment. This means those who have opted out previously and more than 12 months ago, will be re-enrolled if eligible. Here’s what the Pensions Regulator says about re-enrolment: Every three years you must put certain staff back into a pension scheme. This is called ‘re-enrolment’. Your re-enrolment duties must be carried out approximately three years after your automatic enrolment staging date. Your … [Read more...]