The Government has announced that the IR35 tax reforms which were due to be implemented in April 2020 have been delayed for a year due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n
The changes to off-payroll working rules, which would see all medium and large-sized private sector employers become responsible for deciding a contractor\u2019s employment status, will now come into effect on 6 April 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n The decision was announced by Chief Treasury Secretary, Steve Barclay and comes alongside a broad package of measures from the Treasury in a bid to protect the economy during the outbreak.<\/p>\n It follows significant opposition from business leaders to the announcement in the Budget that the reforms were still set to go ahead next month.<\/p>\n The Government has reiterated that the decision was a deferral, not a cancellation and they remain committed to reintroducing this policy on the new date.<\/p>\n Further information is expected to be published in the coming days regarding the IR35 reform delay, as well as the other measures which are being introduced to support businesses.<\/p>\n If you require help or advice regarding the IR35 reform delay then contact a member of our expert team today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Government has announced that the IR35 tax reforms which were due to be implemented in April 2020 have been delayed for a year due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,38,24,30,5,28,49,25,4,26,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}