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		<title>Experts Note Hidden Deterrent Effect of IR35</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Freedom of Information data obtained from HMRC by the PCG reveals that the Revenue’s tax yield per individual IR35 investigation increased ten-fold over the last five tax years. While IR35 cases yielded only £1,700 each on average until 2005/2006, the haul per case soared to almost £17,000 between 2006 and 2011. The data suggests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New specialist IR35 helplines to be set up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 09:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with its promise to improve HMRC administration of IR35 regulations, the Government plans to set up dedicated helplines throughout the UK and staffed by specialist advisers. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke and Office of Tax Simplification Director John Whiting were joint signatories to a letter to the OTS Chairman, Michael Jack, confirming that immediate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialist in IT contracting wins five-year IR35 battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 09:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A specialist in IT contracting has won a five-year long battle with HMRC over her IR35 status, the news outlet Shout 99 reports. Elaine Richardson, who owns ECR Consulting Ltd, was accused in November 2005 of being a disguised employee.  As with a significant number of contractors who work through their own limited companies, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REC welcomes inaugural meeting of IR35 Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 08:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IR35 Forum, set up to improve HMRC’s handling of IR35 regulations, met for the first time on May 6th, an event which has been welcomed by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Many amongst the UK’s contractor workforce wish to see a drastic reduction in the number of IR35 cases investigated by HMRC, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury Minister commits to helping contractors improve HMRC handling of IR35</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 09:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prominent Treasury Minister has made it clear to the PCG (formerly known as the Professional Contractors Group) that he is committed to working with contractors and other freelancers to establish genuine improvements in the administration of IR35 rules. David Gauke MP, who is Exchequer Secretary, described contractors and freelancers as a “significant and important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REC advocates tighter focus by HMRC on IR35 cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has stepped in to the ongoing debate about the future of IR35, arguing that HMRC’s focus should now be on detecting the very small number of genuine examples of disguised employment in the UK rather than assuming that all freelance contractors are potentially subject to the rules. Jeff Brooks, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTS quashes rumours of bias over IR35</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1777/ots-quashes-rumours-of-bias-over-ir35</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As rumours continue to circulate that IR35 abolition was never seriously on the table for Government consideration, the Office for Tax Simplification has moved to pole-axe further speculation. The freelancer group PCG has come in for particular fire by some commentators in the UK’s contractor community, with accusations emerging that it backed down from calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are PAYE umbrella contractors on the rise as temporary posts surge?</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1771/are-paye-umbrella-contractors-on-the-rise-as-temporary-posts-surge</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Umbrella companies may well have sensed their ranks swelling last month, according to figures recently released by the recruiter firm de Poel, which showed a ten per cent increase in the number of temporary workers used by UK businesses. A proportion of these will have been PAYE umbrella contractors. In an interview with Recruiter magazine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading contractor lambasts Government over failure to abolish IR35</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1768/leading-contractor-lambasts-government-over-failure-to-abolish-ir35</link>
		<comments>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1768/leading-contractor-lambasts-government-over-failure-to-abolish-ir35#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s decision to retain IR35 has come in for yet further heavy shell fire, this time from a prominent contractor and former external director of the freelance trade group, PCG. In a letter to the contactor news outlet Shout 99, Phil Ross didn’t mince his words. He claimed that the Coalition has “blown it” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCG continues the fight against IR35</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1747/pcg-continues-the-fight-against-ir35</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractors across the UK may be interested to hear that the Chancellor’s decision to retain IR35 has come under heavy shelling from a leading contributor to the OTS review of small business taxation. The PCG, which played an active role in the review, has published an open letter on its website expressing profound disappointment that [...]]]></description>
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