A House of Lords Committee has heavily criticised the government’s approach to IR35 stating that they are promoting a system that is ‘uncompetitive, complex, burdensome, and unfair’
In a House of Lords Grand Committee debate on the 2020 Off-Payroll Working report by the Economic Affairs Committee, Lord Bridges of Headley stated that the Committee concluded that the approach to IR35 should be ‘certain, simple, supportive of growth, administratively straightforward, enforceable and, above all, fair’, however it found that the ‘current approach was lacking on all counts’.
The Lords did praise the government for commissioning the 2017 Taylor report into modern working practices, however stated that it had only been ‘consigned to the long grass’. It also agreed with the ‘wisely delayed’ introduction of IR35 to the private sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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