Indeed...
So I did the HMRC CEST tool last week based on my current contract and my actual ways of working, and the results quite rightly put me outside IR35. My current end client however is looking to implement a blanket "in" approach which will mean me either going umbrella, or onto a fixed term permanent contract, or leave - even though I don't so a job similar to anyone else in that organisation (which is why they hired a specialist contractor in the first place) nor am I subject to "control" in terms of the execution of my works. My default view then is that I'll leave early April, take 6 months off, and then head back to Europe or the UAE.
In my view then, it actually makes CEST, and the projected HMRC tax-take projections for IR35 utterly useless if I can't actually get work due to big employers now deciding hire in cheap foreign labour instead. To me it's just another excuse for Gov to try to corral all UK workers into the same pigeonhole to make their life easier. BUT... it's not the Governments job to be dictating to me how I work or earn a living, especially as on the other hand we get BERR saying that due to BREXIT, that the UK needs a highly mobile and flexible hi-tech workforce.
Government idiocy at it's finest.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
