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Do new IR35 tests reward failure?
It’s been almost a week since HMRC published the IR35 business test questions and guidance which it will now use to identify which companies are most at risk of non-compliance and therefore most likely to be targeted for investigation. To say that their publication has been controversial has to be the understatement of the year and the dust is yet to settle. Click here to read more »
Why is Britain so far behind on the small business curve?
ClearSky Managing Director, Derek Kelly
Over the weekend I read a fascinating study in the Harvard Business Review under the title ‘The Rise of the Supertemp’ and what struck me was how far behind the UK is in its attitude to professional freelancers, contractors and temporary workers. Click here to read more »
The importance of property for your small business
ClearSky Managing Director, Derek Kelly, gives his thoughts
When starting out in business one of the first considerations is where to base yourself. Your first instinct may be to just set up your spare room as an office and go from there, but for a lot of small businesses, particularly those for which IR35 is an issue, it might not be the best option. Click here to read more »
Is tax about elections or economics?
Who was it who is supposed to have remarked; “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax”?
I’ll give you the answer shortly and you might be surprised when you know it. Click here to read more »
When is your business actually a business?
As you know we’ve been keeping an eye on developments from the IR35 forum for some months now, particularly the mooted ‘business’ tests that HMRC will be using to help decide whether or not a full IR35 investigation is warranted.
We did expect the ‘business entity’ tests to be published later this month and then to go through a consultation process, however, the latest IR35 forum meeting minutes for the March meeting now suggest otherwise and the tests have been published.
A new spin on something old
Anyone who regularly follows our blogs will know we like ‘new’ here at ClearSky. In fact, our whole ethos when setting up ClearSky was we believed there was a ‘new’, better, no nonsense way of doing things when it came to accountancy services for small businesses, freelancers and contractors.
Now, in true ClearSky fashion, we are celebrating the start of the new tax year with a new website and a new set of services for the construction industry. It’s also worth mentioning the new IR35 business tests which we touched on last week.
Easy to digest or hard to stomach, how did you react to last week
I posted my initial reaction to the Budget shortly after the Chancellor sat down last week, and you can read my comments here.
Clients of ClearSky will have received their in-depth Budget report last Thursday and we’ve now made this available to everyone else as a downloadable PDF. You can get your copy here.
Having gone through the Budget 2012 report in more depth, we’ve now picked up on one aspect of it that is very close to our hearts after our recent blogs on how personal service companies (PSCs) are being portrayed in the media and our old ‘friend’ IR35.
How would you make our tax system fair?
One of the complaints frequently levied at HMRC is that when it comes to tax rules in the UK, it’s often a case of one rule for one and another for the rest of us. This hasn’t been helped by the recent stories of cosy tax deals negotiated with large multinational corporates such as Goldman Sachs. Click here to read more »
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