Orange Genie News

Crowd Funded Legal challenge to IR35 – Update

Back in early July, we reported that Mike Gibson, a contractor who instigated a crowd-funded legal challenge to the Public sector reform of IR35, had exceeded his target of £10,500 in donations. At the time Mr. Gibson was about to instruct tax barrister Michael Paulin to begin research into possible grounds for challenging the IR35 reforms.

It now seems that this research is not going all Mr. Gibson’s way. Addressing campaign donors, Mr Gibson admitted that the chances of success look “increasingly dubious” as “every possible angle has already been looked into by many others”.

Orange Genie Announces Business Partnership with the REC

Orange Genie are proud to announce their business partnership with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) – the professional body for UK recruitment businesses.

Orange Genie provide specialist accountancy, umbrella employment and self-employed/CIS solutions for UK contractors, as well as offering expert compliance advice and training to their agency partners. They are the only contractor support company to be accredited by both FCSA and Professional Passport and they have a well-deserved reputation for excellent service and compliance expertise.

Failing to Prevent Tax Evasion – a new criminal offence!

From 30^th of September 2017 the Criminal Finance Act will create a new criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

This means that businesses, including recruiters, will be held responsible for the activities of their employees and associated persons even if the senior management were not involved or aware.

A business will be guilty of this new offence, and potentially receive an unlimited fine and criminal record if:

Understanding your Employment Status

Matthew Taylor’s review of modern working practices was published earlier this month, and has added to ongoing debate and speculation surrounding employment and tax status. We've produced this plain-language guide to help you understand the conversation, and possibly help to clarify your own position.

Taylor Report Supports Umbrella Companies

After months of commentary and speculation, Matthew Taylor’s report on modern working practices was published on the 11^th of July. You can read our detailed summary of the report here.

Commenting on the report, Graham Fisher, Group Chief Executive of Orange Genie described himself as “pleased” and with good reason.