Rejected petition Halt HMRC IR35 reform, unfair financial burden in a time of crisis

Stop the reforms to IR35 implementation to be rolled out on April 6th. Many contractors will now face no work or less work due to the immediate and long term impact on the economy from the Coronavirus outbreak.
The assessment process is fatally flawed and results financially crippling.

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HMRC have taken an abusive and bullying approach to the IR35 tax regulations. Having been unable to prove that people are flouting tax rules by operating a legitimate limited company providing services, HMRC have decided the end client must determine a scenario which they themselves have been unable to achieve. They have created an ominous threatening approach to the end user which has results in blanket contrived status determinations finding people inside IR35 in contradiction to the CEST tool

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Since you started this petition, the Government has announced that these reforms have been postponed until 2021. You can read more about this here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/off-payroll-working-rules-reforms-postponed-until-2021

You may be interested in signing this petition, calling on the Government to revoke IR35 legislation: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300458

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Date submitted 16 March 2020
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