Re: Can anyone explain IR35?
The IR35 changes have not a lot to do with HMRC collecting more revenue. It's about making them look busy while fucking the little guy over.
HMRC (along with most other tax departments) have a quite clear plan for getting more revenue. Hiring investigators, going after the biggest offenders first and enforcing the penalties is guaranteed income. It costs roughly 100k pa to raise an additional 2m pa.
However, the biggest offenders know this, and so tax departments are restrained, cut and fucked around with as much as possible since those big offenders often are greasing the wheels of politics.
So as with any real clusterfuck, it takes politics and vested interests to screw things up.