The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has today sent a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposing the re adoption of The VAT Staff Hire Concession.
The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) has requested that ARC shares with its members details of a joint webinar EAS is delivering with the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority [...]
In recent months there has been a sustained flow of information in the media around the new IR35 rules and in particular the use by employment businesses ('agencies') of umbrella companies.
Employment Agency standards (EAS) at the department of BEIS, has launched a series of webinars for agencies and employment businesses to deal with some common compliance failings.
In their recent 'must read' articles 'IR35 made easy' and 'IR35 made easier' Lawspeed addressed how to engage a contractor without risk and how to address risk in circumstances where there was no [...]
"The recent furore over HMRC guidance that draws umbrella companies into scope of new IR35 rules may have died down, but the problem hasn't gone away" say the recruitment and employment law [...]