CEST la vie, IR35 workers: HMRC sets out stall for ignoring Mutuality of Obligation

HMRC has attracted further ire from contractors affected by plans to squeeze them for a bit more tax under IR35 rules. After considerable prodding by contractor consultancies and other groups including freelance advisory service ContractorCalculator.co.uk, the tax agency last week released a new paper on Mutuality of …

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Checking Basics Reveals New Facts to Replace Fictions/Contrived Tales

“Where work is provided and remuneration is paid we will assume that there is mutuality of obligation and that a contract exists,...

There is the problem outed clearly in black and white, an assumption which doesn't bear forensic scrutiny at all well.