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The Conservatives will replace a set of tax rules for self-employed people which have “badly” let them down, shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has announced.
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Griffith → replace → them
Mr Griffith made the announcement in his first speech since he was appointed as John Healey’s opposite number in the Conservative reshuffle at the end of August.
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he → make → August
Rules designed to prevent tax avoidance by “disguising” workers as self-employed contractors, known as IR35, will be replaced by the Conservatives if they return to government, the shadow chancellor said.
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chancellor → design → government
Speaking at a college in north London, he said: “For the self-employed, many of whom will have started out in colleges such as this, there is this special torture of making tax digital.
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tax → speak → this
Making tax difficult, as it’s often known.
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it → make → ?
“Instead of getting on with the job, they’re forced to spend time and money being tracked and traced by HMRC, filling four extra reports a year before they’ve even started their tax return.
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they → get → return
“Then there’s IR35, a regime which crushed the dreams of so many self-employed people to be able to work for themselves and regulate their own affairs.
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which → ’ → affairs
And yet I know that many felt badly let down by IR35 policies.”
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many → know → policies
He added: “When the Conservative Party returns to government, I want to be a chancellor for small businesses and the self-employed, that is why I’m here.
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I → add → businesses
“What will that look like?
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that → look → What
Well, I’m committing today that the next Conservative government will replace IR35, not reform it, not review it, but replace it with a new system that respects the right of the self-employed to choose their status and only prevents actual abuse.”
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that → commit → abuse
Mr Griffith said he wanted to cut the amount of tax paperwork small businesses have to fill in.
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businesses → say → paperwork
He has commissioned a taskforce to investigate how to reform the tax compliance system, with a view to reduce the burden faced by small businesses.
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Small businesses face a combined cost of £25 billion a year because of tax compliance, and business owners spend 44 hours a year on tax paperwork, the Federation of Small Businesses has previously estimated.
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Federation → face → Businesses
Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Griffith urged his Government counterpart Mr Healey to rule out tax rises at the autumn Budget.
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Griffith → urge → Budget
The Chancellor and Andy Burnham have both begun to adopt a sober tone about the state of the public finances ahead of the fiscal event on October 28.
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Chancellor → begin → October
Speaking on BBC Breakfast ahead of the speech, Mr Griffith said: “This is not a moment to put up taxes, we’ve had two budgets that have put up taxes to the highest ever recorded level, let’s just take that off the table.”
Taxes and the “fear of taxes” are driving “really big taxpayers to leave our country for overseas, taking hundreds of millions of pounds of tax revenues that will pay for public services”, he also warned.
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