Written Question·Treasury·UIN 39696

Small Businesses: Off-payroll Working

Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 26 March 2025

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of off-payroll working IR35 reforms on (a) self-employed workers and (b) small businesses.

Answer

James Murray
The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, do not apply to the genuinely self employed. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contr...

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