Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Off-payroll Working

(asked on 13th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many contractors working for his Department have had their employment status assessed in relation to the new IR35 rules on off-payroll working; and how many of those staff are subject to those rules.


Answered by
Luke Hall Portrait
Luke Hall
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2020

In MHCLG, we can confirm that we assess the employment status for tax purposes of every contractor according to the 2017 IR35 amendment. We are currently engaged with 42 contractors, of which 19 are currently in scope of the IR35 tax legislation.

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