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Petition · past parliament

Investigate effects of the reform of IR35 legislation on Public Sector Projects

Closed 34 signatures

What the petition asks

On April 5th 2017 HMRC will reform the intermediaries legislation in Chapter 8 Part 2 Income Taxes (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (“ITEPA 2003”) often known as IR35. The impending arrival of this clumsy legislation has already introduced huge risk and budget overuns into.public sector projects.
The communication around the impending legislation change has been extremely poor and many organisations have subsequently lost huge swathes of experienced resources critical to sucessful delivery. Furthermore the legislation is seen as unecessarily punitive on limted companies who provide knowledge skills and expertise. HMRC are seeking to differentiate these companies by terming them Personal Service Companies (a term which has no basis in law) and to punitively discriminate against them.

Timeline

29 Mar 2017 Petition opened for signatures
2 May 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 34
Status Closed
Opened 29 Mar 2017
Closed 2 May 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.