Re: Drop it!
Rules like IR35 rarely originate from from the political party in power. There are no major headlines to be won, nor a meaningful boost to the government coffers. If IR35 is scrapped, it would be replaced with something else.
The seeds of IR35 came from the civil service in order to ensure the need for more staff to administer it. This is the same reasoning as why the OTS (Office for Tax Simplification) would never suggest anything to actually simplify taxation, or if they did the proposal would be shot down by other departments.
Need to keep those civil service empires growing. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were documentaries.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
