Stop private sector IR35 until it has been discussed to support SME businesses

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Discuss IR35 focusing on the impact on SME's who are excluded from tendering on projects with private firms and are now impacted by blanket rules where private firms are refusing engagements or demanding they operate through PAYE regardless of circumstances.

The legislation favors larger firms and closes the market to SME's.
Private legislation does not include open tendering unlike the public sector that causes SME's to be excluded.
The legislation does not take into account the risk taken by genuine SME businesses.
The legislation has closed the majority of the market with firms not taking individual risk based decisions but applying blanket rules.
Practitioners are now regarded as employees but usually with far less rights and benefits.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do. For example, you could start a new petition explaining what changes you would like made to IR35.

You may be interested to know that the Government has delayed off-payroll working rules reforms until April 2021 as part of its response to Covid-19.

We have published a petition calling for the legislation to be revoked which you may wish to sign:
Revoke IR35 Legislation that is causing significant damage to UK businesses

Timeline

24 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
10 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Jul 2020

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