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<p>The Government is committed to working with organisations to ensure changes to
the rules are implemented correctly. HMRC are undertaking an extensive programme of
education and support to help organisations prepare for the reform. This includes:</p><p>
</p><ul><li>Offering one-to-one support to more than 2,000 of the UK’s biggest employers,
and writing directly to 43,000 medium sized businesses and other organisations.</li><li>Providing
large and medium sized businesses, public bodies, and charities with factsheets to
share with their contractors, and publishing this factsheet on gov.uk.</li><li>Holding
workshops with small tax agents, recruitment agencies, charities, and public bodies.</li><li>Holding
at least weekly webinars, with small tax agents, recruitment agencies, charities,
public bodies and contractors.</li><li>An enhanced version of the Check Employment
Status for Tax online tool was published in November 2019 to help individuals and
organisations make the right status determinations and apply the off-payroll rules
correctly.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The reform of the off-payroll working rules in April
2020 will apply only to medium and large-sized businesses, minimising administrative
burdens for the vast majority of engagers. The existing rules will continue to apply
to the smallest 1.5m businesses.</p>
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