Here are some current and important legal concepts and employee rights to be familiar with when hiring employees in the United Kingdom.
Here are some current and important legal concepts and employee rights to be familiar with when hiring employees in the United Kingdom.
To ensure that UK nationals and their family members may remain living in the Netherlands legally in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the IND has started to send temporary residence permits as of March 13, 2019. In this manner UK nationals and their family members living in the Netherlands…
It was recently revealed that the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is looking into the financial affairs of 173 football players, 40 clubs and 38 agents in the UK, as it claws back of £ 355.000.000 from the football sport. The focus on football came after the 2017 budget, when…
One of the announcement from the 2018 Budget, affecting employment in the United Kingdom was confirmation that IR35 rules will be extended in the private sector. Under these new rules, the responsibility of deciding whether an individual is correctly working outside IR35 will move from the individual itself to the…
Leaders of tax enforcement authorities from the abovementioned countries have formed a multi-lateral tax enforcement group, Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), to collaborate in fighting international and transnational tax crimes and money laundering. Membership of the J5 includes the heads of tax crime and senior officials from the…
Brexit negotiators recently agreed phase 1 of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union and included agreement on the social security position in their report. The intention appears to be for the UK to be treated as an EU Member State for social security purposes (i.e. the same position as…
What are the conditions? Overseas Workday Relief applies to non-UK domiciled employees who have recently arrived in the UK or are returning to the UK after a significant period of non-UK residency. The following conditions must be satisfied: resident but not domiciled in the UK, remittance basis user for the…
Tax Changes back on track for non-domiciled taxpayers (‘non-doms’) The Finance Bill introduced in March 2017 provided for a number of changes to the tax legislation that were withdrawn after the general election was called. At that time, the Treasury confirmed there was no policy change and these provisions…
The UK Court of Appeal has today upheld a lower court’s decision that a plumber engaged notionally as a self-employed contractor was in reality a worker. It has important implications within and beyond the skilled service sector and online economy, and especially for business advisory, medical services and IT practices.…
HM Revenue and Customs has updated its guidance on the tests to be applied to determine whether a tax avoidance scheme disclosure is required from someone who promotes or uses an arrangement designed to give a tax or national insurance advantage. Under the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS)…