At the end of the day, it's all down to political cowardice from Governments of all stripes. Employers NI is a pernicious stealth tax on work, and continuing to pursue it causes all sorts of unfair a… (View Post)

The net difference in VAT+Corporation Tax + Dividend Tax versus Employee NI+Employers NI + Income Tax can make the delta significantly smaller. The Dividend Tax changes a few years back closed that d… (View Post)

That may be the intent, but it's not the actuality. The duration of the work isn't important. It's control and substitution (and mutuality of obligation, but HMRC tries to argue that the latter is al… (View Post)

P.S. - One unusual feature of Off Payroll "deemed workers" is that they are the only workers to be prohibited from ever claiming tax-free travel and subsistence costs back. Which, given tha… (View Post)

The "Off Payroll Legislation" simply creates a new class of workers: those who pay all the taxes and have all the responsibilities and negatives of employed people, but without any of the p… (View Post)