Question follow-through · 39696
Small Businesses: Off-payroll Working
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.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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26 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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