Public sector rules on IR35 were in place at the time but Government didn’t comply with their own legislation.
Were the IT workers disguised employees? Without mutuality of obligation, maybe not.
Mutuality of Obligation
The obligation on the employer to provide work and the obligation on the employee to accept that work. This is a necessary feature of the relationship between an employer and an employee.
At my agency, all the drivers got laid off after Christmas for 6 weeks without pay due to the seasonal lack of work at this time of year. All the work was given to the employed drivers. Yet the agency drivers are now paying income tax and NI like the employed drivers, but without the benefits…and certainly without Mutuality of Obligation.
carlston49:
Were the IT workers disguised employees? Without mutuality of obligation, maybe not.Mutuality of Obligation
The obligation on the employer to provide work and the obligation on the employee to accept that work. This is a necessary feature of the relationship between an employer and an employee.At my agency, all the drivers got laid off after Christmas for 6 weeks without pay due to the seasonal lack of work at this time of year. All the work was given to the employed drivers. Yet the agency drivers are now paying income tax and NI like the employed drivers, but without the benefits…and certainly without Mutuality of Obligation.
The contractors were obviously in breach of IR35 legislation and it was down to the employer, in these instances, the government departments to establish the tax arrangements of their contractors, obviously that didn’t happen or maybe the government departments thought the rules didn’t apply to them. Now that sounds familiar.
You would think there would be bigger pickings for HMRC here…
“The UK’s tax agency (HMRC) said it had received information from foreign banks showing that British residents held some £849bn in 6.4 million foreign accounts in 2019. Two-thirds of it - a similar amount to the annual GDP of Luxembourg - is held in tax havens.
But HMRC said it had not carried out any assessment of how much tax had been evaded by cross-checking with individuals’ annual returns. The admission comes as the UK grapples with a growing economic and cost-of living crisis with surging food and fuel prices.”
Source:
thenationalnews.com/world/u … -accounts/
ScaniaUltimate:
You would think there would be bigger pickings for HMRC here…“The UK’s tax agency (HMRC) said it had received information from foreign banks showing that British residents held some £849bn in 6.4 million foreign accounts in 2019. Two-thirds of it - a similar amount to the annual GDP of Luxembourg - is held in tax havens.
But HMRC said it had not carried out any assessment of how much tax had been evaded by cross-checking with individuals’ annual returns. The admission comes as the UK grapples with a growing economic and cost-of living crisis with surging food and fuel prices.”
Source:
thenationalnews.com/world/u … -accounts/
Yep, £6.4 million accounts would cost HMRC/Government an absolute enormous amount of time and therefore revenue to investigate each and every one to chase any tax owed on the £849 billion. Government prefer to legislate “en bloc” with draconian rules with a one size fits all approach.
robbo99.:
ScaniaUltimate:
You would think there would be bigger pickings for HMRC here…“The UK’s tax agency (HMRC) said it had received information from foreign banks showing that British residents held some £849bn in 6.4 million foreign accounts in 2019. Two-thirds of it - a similar amount to the annual GDP of Luxembourg - is held in tax havens.
But HMRC said it had not carried out any assessment of how much tax had been evaded by cross-checking with individuals’ annual returns. The admission comes as the UK grapples with a growing economic and cost-of living crisis with surging food and fuel prices.”
Source:
thenationalnews.com/world/u … -accounts/Yep, £6.4 million accounts would cost HMRC/Government an absolute enormous amount of time and therefore revenue to investigate each and every one to chase any tax owed on the £849 billion. Government prefer to legislate “en bloc” with draconian rules with a one size fits all approach.
This Gov`s attitude to fraud?
news.sky.com/story/treasury-min … d-12524460
And we have them proposing cuts to the civil service, at the same time as they are introducing more customs documents and checks, and there are queues in passports and driving licence admin and, and…
The only thing they can organize is ■■■■ ups!
Edit to fix link
Edit 2 to add:
The Gov has about
4,000 staff to deal with £2bn benefit fraud.
520 staff to investigate over £5bn tax evasion by the rich.
See
fullfact.org/economy/benefit-fr … s-numbers/
For a fuller picture.