This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Stop private sector IR35 until it has been discussed to support SME businesses
Discuss IR35 focusing on the impact on SME's who are excluded from tendering on projects with private firms and are now impacted by blanket rules where private firms are refusing engagements or demanding they operate through PAYE regardless of circumstances.
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The legislation favors larger firms and closes the market to SME's.
Private legislation does not include open tendering unlike the public sector that causes SME's to be excluded.
The legislation does not take into account the risk taken by genuine SME businesses.
The legislation has closed the majority of the market with firms not taking individual risk based decisions but applying blanket rules.
Practitioners are now regarded as employees but usually with far less rights and benefits.
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Why was this petition rejected?
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You may be interested to know that the Government has delayed off-payroll working rules reforms until April 2021 as part of its response to Covid-19.
We have published a petition calling for the legislation to be revoked which you may wish to sign:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300458
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