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Off-payroll Working: Small Businesses

Commons · Question 41303 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Zöe Franklin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure off-payroll working rules support (a) entrepreneurs and (b) small business growth.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 2 Apr 2025

The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) as those who are directly employe...