Due to Brexit, driver retirement and the enforced IR35 reform, there is now a shortage of Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers in the UK – around 100,000, according to some estimates.<\/p>\n
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Therefore, businesses must reconsider their risk-averse strategies for managing any tax changes related to employment.<\/p>\n
IR35 specialists have revealed that\u00a0<\/strong>re-evaluating approaches to status determination may be vital for businesses to be able to attract flexible employees.<\/p>\n What is IR35?<\/strong><\/p>\n The off-payroll working rules, more commonly referred to as the IR35 reform, began on 6 April 2021 for the private sector.<\/p>\n Medium and large businesses are now responsible for determining a contractor\u2019s IR35 status.<\/p>\n Business owners or managers need to assess the contracted worker\u2019s status to determine if they are self-employed, meaning they are outside IR35 or work in a way that reflects employment, meaning they are inside IR35.<\/p>\n Additionally, the end client or recruitment agency is also responsible for liability when hiring a contracted worker – meaning they are responsible for paying the worker.<\/p>\n How did businesses react to IR35?<\/strong><\/p>\n In response to the IR35 reform, some companies required all contracted workers to operate within IR35 under blanket determinations.<\/p>\n However, in doing so, many genuinely self-employed workers have had no choice but to become employees or work \u2018inside IR35\u2019, including some lorry drivers.<\/p>\n In becoming employees, these contractors will be subject to tax and national insurance similar to a regular employee.<\/p>\n What can businesses do?<\/strong><\/p>\n To obtain and entice new contractors, we advise business owners to rethink their current IR35-related strategies to ensure they are appealing and fair to workers.<\/p>\n As expert advice is needed, please contact us at your earliest convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due to Brexit, driver retirement and the enforced IR35 reform, there is now a shortage of Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers in the UK – around 100,000, according to some estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,58,30,31,60,50,120,121,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336"}],"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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}