12/10/2025 7:31:18 PM IR35 reform delayed By Macfarlanes Last night the Chief Treasury Secretary announced that the long awaited Off-Payroll Worker (IR35) tax reforms would be delayed by one...
12/10/2025 7:28:51 PM Directors - furlough, but don't forget By Dominic Sedghi Adam Campbell The Government has confirmed that, as office holders, salaried company directors qualify for its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under...
12/10/2025 7:16:27 PM Regulated firms need to manage culture as FCA bars sex offenders from industry By Hayley Robinson The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has for the first time prohibited three individuals from working in the financial services industry...
12/10/2025 6:53:24 PM Brexit plus Covid-19 plus immigration policy equals acute labour shortages By Edward Reed Back in December 2020, just before the end of the Brexit transition period which marked the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU's...
12/10/2025 6:53:14 PM Remote right to work checks to continue until 5 April 2022 By Edward Reed The UK Government has announced that the temporary concession on remote right to work checks will now continue until at least 5 April...
12/10/2025 6:52:31 PM Labour announces plans to tax carried interest as income By Lawrence Parkin Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that Labour, if the party wins the next general election, will target the carried interest...
12/10/2025 6:49:55 PM UK Budget and immigration - Chancellor confirms 2022 high skilled visa plans By Edward Reed Today, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government’s fiscal plans for the immediate and near future. Amongst the tax...
12/10/2025 6:48:45 PM An important Court of Appeal ruling for mass claims By Simon Day Michael Freedman With the highly anticipated Supreme Court judgment in Lloyd v Google being handed down on Wednesday, the Court of Appeal has recently...
12/10/2025 6:48:35 PM HMRC's focus on CJRS compliance grows now that support has come to an end By Jackelyn West 15 months ago, we wrote about HMRC’s announced plans to start recovery action of overpaid grants under the Coronavirus Job Retention...
12/10/2025 6:42:50 PM Trading for visas: UK considers easing visa requirements for Indian nationals By Edward Reed When the UK left the UK-EU transition period on 31 December 2021, it ended free trade of goods and services with a trading bloc of 450m...
12/10/2025 6:36:26 PM Challenges and opportunities for ESG-linked pay in 2022 By Macfarlanes Last week Ras Berglund and I spoke at the ESOP Centre’s 2022 Share Schemes Symposium about the growing impact of ESG on executive...
12/10/2025 6:33:58 PM Can't PAYE? We'll take it away! HMRC's discretion to disapply PAYE By Jackelyn West Jamie Golding In the recent decision of Hoey v HMRC EWCA Civ 656 (Hoey), the Court of Appeal confirmed that HMRC has a very wide discretion to disapply...
12/10/2025 6:28:21 PM Employment status – status quo By Matthew Ramsey The thorny question of whether someone is a worker, an employee or self-employed (for employment rights purposes) and an employee or...
12/10/2025 6:28:02 PM Is working from a holiday home about to become simpler? OTS launches review of remote working By Rhiannon Kinghall Were The pandemic has created a notable shift in the approach individuals and companies are taking to remote working which prompts a number of...
12/10/2025 6:27:45 PM The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Home Office By Edward Reed The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created a refugee crisis as almost four million, mostly, women and children fled the...
12/10/2025 6:27:17 PM Home Office resumes priority processing By Edward Reed Last week, I wrote about the issues the Home Office faces as a consequence of a surge of applications, a lack of caseworkers and the...