Today (19/05/20) backbench MPs have tabled an amendment to be discussed in the House of Commons to delay IR35 until 2023-24.
This proposal comes from David Davis, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden.
Dave Chaplin, director of The Stop The Off-Payroll Tax Campaign said:
This is great news for our campaign and for the thousands of contractors who will be affected by the roll out of the legislation. The Stop The Off-Payroll Tax Campaign has been working hard over the last year to rally some 3000 supporters to meet their MPs and spell out the damage the tax will impose on their livelihoods and the UK economy overall. I am delighted that MPs have listened to us and to the Lords’ damning report and are pushing for a further delay until 2023. There will no doubt be a showdown in Parliament next Tuesday when this amendment is debated and voted on but a delay will allow more people to voice their concerns, lobby their MPs and work with policymakers to come up with a way to properly recognise contracting and freelancing in the tax system.
At the time, Mr Barclay said:
This is a deferral in response to the ongoing spread of Covid-19 to help businesses and individuals.
This is a deferral and not a cancellation, and the Government remains committed to reintroducing this policy to ensure people working like employees but through their own limited company pay broadly the same amount of tax as those employed directly.
Darius is the editor of HRreview. He has previously worked as a finance reporter for the Daily Express. He studied his journalism masters at Press Association Training and graduated from the University of York with a degree in History.
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