PCG loses appeal on IR35

The Professional Contractors Group, PCG, today lost its appeal against a previous High Court ruling on the controversial tax known as IR35. The Court of Appeal ruled that the government had the right in law to impose IR35, which is used to claw back national insurance contributions from individual self-employed IT contractors working for larger companies. As such they have previously not had to pay NI contributions as employees of larger IT services firms must do, but IR35 essentially treats contractors as pseudo-employees for this purpose. The High Court ruled that IR35 was u...