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 ‘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...]
Why the future’s not bright for IR35 advice
Caring whether their adviser soon gets stuck between a rock and a hard place isn’t the job of a contractor.But new legislative proposals may mean the upshot of this predicament for advisers is a reluctance for them to assist temporary workers with tax and IR35 advice.This is the realistic prospect of a tabled piece of tax legislation that threatens to drive divisions between adviser (the professional who gives you guidance on IR35, for example) and client (you, the contractor).In the … [Read more...]
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Contracting in the Public Sector
Much debate and discussion continues to rage regarding public sector working, particularly regarding those contractors operating their own personal service company (PSC).Only recently was an article published with the headline “Half of all public PSC’s to quit over IR35 change” which will equate to over 13,000 contractors.Rather than quit the sector or operate a PSC, why not engage and understand the options available to you through partnering with an outsourced payroll provider? … [Read more...]
Open Consultation on the reform of the off-payroll rules for personal services companies.
Here is your opportunity to let the government know what you think of the recent changes, and those planned for the future. This consultation is about reforming the intermediaries legislation to improve its effectiveness in the public sector. It seeks views on the impacts of this change and design details of the policy, including a new process to help determine whether an intermediary is in scope of the rules.The consultation asks for opinions on:the scope of the reform of the … [Read more...]