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If you contract through a limited company, there are certain expenses that you can claim against your income to reduce your tax liability.
If your limited company makes £50,000 and you claim back £10,000 in allowable expenses, the taxable profit will be £40,000.
There are some rules governing what expenses limited company contractors can claim.
The government wants to hear from you as part of an attempt to tackle IR35 non-compliance in the private sector.
It comes after changes to IR35 rules in the public sector caused problems public authorities and contractors
Also known as off-payroll working, IR35 rules are designed to stop employees working and paying taxes as if they were contractors.
The rules apply to contractors working through personal service companies who, if they were engaged directly by the company, would effectively be employees.
A recently concluded court case could have far-reaching consequences for contractors on ‘too good to be true’ tax avoidance schemes.
In a warning sign to contractors that are thinking about using a dodgy ‘too good to be true’ remuneration scheme, MPs have been told that users of one type of tax avoidance scheme could risk bankruptcy in the near future.
The charge centres on a recently concluded Supreme Court Case between Rangers Football Club and HMRC and a tax avoidance scheme where an offshore Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) paid players and other staff through loans.
HMRC have released a number of updated sections on their website detailing how the changes to IR35 and the public sector will work from April 2017.
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Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged not to ‘clobber’ limited company contractors and other businesses with another dividend tax grab this autumn.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said it was concerned that the Treasury might once again cut the tax-free dividend allowance for limited company directors, to collect an extra £1.3bn in tax receipts.
The Chancellor has already reduced the allowance from £5,000 to £2,000, a policy which took effect this April.
Now there is concern that Philip Hammond will announce a fresh raid on the dividend tax-free allowance in this year’s Autumn Statement.
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It’s a question that many limited company contractors will be asking in the coming months as impending changes threaten some of the biggest financial advantages that come along with limited company status.
For public sector contractors operating through personal service companies (PSCs) the changes could prove catastrophic.
The big shift concerns the IR35 status of public sector contractors – specifically, who judges a contractor’s IR35 status. From April, the responsibility for judging IR35 status will pass from the individual contractor to the hiring public sector body or agency charged with recruitment.
As a result, more contractors will be ‘caught out’ by the IR35 rules. Anyone ‘caught out’ by the changes will be reclassified by HMRC as being in ‘disguised employment.’ This means they will be taxed as if they were regular employees.
In November 2015, prior to the release of George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, we wrote to the Chancellor raising our concerns in respect of proposed legislation changes to IR35, travel & subsistence tax relief for contractors and the one month rule that was incorrectly rumoured to being introduced for contractors working through their own limited company.
Today, 9th December 2015, we have received a reply and are thankful for the time taken in doing so.
Coincidently today is the day when the first draft of the new Finance Bill will be released. This Bill will contain the new legislation.
