Off-Payroll Working Rules (IR35): education and support to help prepare for April 2021 changes

Medium or large-sized non-public sector organisations and contractors need to start to prepare for the changes to the off-payroll working rules. These changes were legislated for in the recent Finance Act and will come into effect on 6 April 2021.

We recognise that businesses are facing difficult challenges due to COVID19, which is why we are providing information and support now, more than five months in advance, to ensure customers have time to prepare for the changes when suitable for them. We are also working with trade bodies and representative groups of affected sectors to help organisations prepare for the reform and to highlight our available support.

This support includes: publishing technical guidance and enhanced additional resources to support contractors, a series of webinars over coming months, and workshops and 1-2-1 calls for some of our customers. On GOV.UK you will also find materials we’re producing to help support representative groups in updating their members.

Many contractors and organisations have already begun to prepare, and around 3,000 customers attended the three webinars we delivered during October.

You may be aware we also regularly discuss our work to ensure the successful implementation of the changes with the IR35 Forum. This includes taxpayer representatives and professional advisers with expert knowledge and experience of how the legislation operates in practice and how it affects key groups.

Further information can be found on GOV.UK.