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<p>As announced at Budget 2018, the reform of the off-payroll working rules will come
into effect from 6 April 2020. The Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) published
in July 2019 sets out HMRC’s assessment that the reform to the off-payroll working
rules is expected to affect 170,000 individuals. The TIIN can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-for-off-payroll-working-from-april-2020/rules-for-off-payroll-working-from-april-2020"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-for-off-payroll-working-from-april-2020/rules-for-off-payroll-working-from-april-2020</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>As part of the review published on 27 February 2020, HMRC engaged with a number
of affected individuals and businesses through a series of stakeholder roundtables
to test business readiness.</p><p>The Government is committed to working with organisations
to ensure changes to the off-payroll working rules are implemented correctly from
April 2020. 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>Publishing an enhanced version of the Check
Employment Status for Tax online tool in November 2019 to help individuals and organisations
make the right status determinations and apply the off-payroll rules correctly.</li></ul>
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