{"id":1669,"date":"2023-05-05T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:17:52","slug":"hmrc-has-digital-health-businesses-in-its-sights-by-matthew-sharp-partner-at-fieldfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/hmrc-has-digital-health-businesses-in-its-sights-by-matthew-sharp-partner-at-fieldfisher\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;HMRC has digital health businesses in its sights&#8221; by Matthew Sharp, Partner at Fieldfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Companies working in the sector should check workers\u2019 employment status, warns Matthew Sharp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After a pause in compliance activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, HMRC is ramping up its compliance and enforcement activities. One of the key focus areas for HMRC is \u2018off-payroll compliance\u2019 (i.e. whether people are being properly categorised as self-employed workers as opposed to employees).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This is relevant as self-employed workers generally pay lower amounts in income tax and National Insurance Contributions \u2013 so disguised employment leads to a lower tax yield for the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And evidence suggests that HMRC is focusing its off-payroll compliance activities on the Pharma and Healthcare sector, including digital health businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HMRC-has-digital-health-businesses-in-its-sights-by-Matthew-Sharp-.pdf\">HMRC-has-digital-health-businesses-in-its-sights-by-Matthew-Sharp-<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HMRC-has-digital-health-businesses-in-its-sights-by-Matthew-Sharp-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies working in the sector should check workers\u2019 employment status, warns Matthew Sharp. After a pause in compliance activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, HMRC is ramping up its compliance and enforcement activities. One of the key focus areas for HMRC is \u2018off-payroll compliance\u2019 (i.e. whether people are being properly categorised as self-employed workers as opposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-october-november-2022"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}