How to protect your business from HMRC challenges
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HMRC employment status challenges are getting to be pretty big news at the moment as the government looks to recoup more than £1.5bn per year that it believes is being lost to “false self employment”.
Join RIFT Legal Services at our FREE breakfast seminar for local businesses and learn more about employment status challenges, how you’re fully compliant with new legislation.
Why Attend?
A number of high-profile employment status cases ranging from the BBC to Uber to Deliveroo have been in the headlines during the last few months and this HMRC and media focus and attention on "false self-employment" it has never been more important to consider how you engage your workforce.
Even the Office of Tax Simplification has recently warned: “Employment status is a complex and wide-ranging subject that many have said has no real solution – and that if we did manage to ‘solve it’, we should immediately move on to world peace as we’d clearly be on a roll.”
Complex or not, the likelihood of firms of all sizes receiving a status enquiry has risen significantly. You need to act now to protect your business.
What will the seminar cover?
• A complete run-down of the current situation, why it's happening and what you need to do about it.
• Understanding HMRC definitions of what makes someone an employee or self-employed.
• What is involved in an HMRC enquiry.
• How this affects use of agencies & intermediaries, the risk it represents and how to address this area.
• Guidance on the potential costs, the risks to your business and the wider implications for the UK economy.
This seminar will give you the practical advice you need to successfully withstand the scrutiny of an HMRC employment status investigation, avoid unnecessary liability costs and enjoy the sense of security that comes with the knowledge of full compliance.
Where there are myths, we bust them. Where there are safe paths to walk, we've mapped them out.
Join us for coffee and bacon rolls from 07.30, with the briefing beginning at 08:00.
