{"id":2394,"date":"2021-03-31T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/educationfinance\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:11:54","slug":"employment-status-important-the-employment-status-for-tax-rules-are-changing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/employment-status-important-the-employment-status-for-tax-rules-are-changing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Status &#8211; IMPORTANT! The Employment Status for Tax rules are changing again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 6th April 2021 Employment Status checks <strong>MUST<\/strong> be completed, and the contractor advised of their tax status,\u00a0<strong>BEFORE the work begins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following must happen before work begins for all contractors working as \u2018self-employed\u2019 or through their own small businesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They must have a DCC employment status check completed<\/li>\n<li>They must be issued a written confirmation of the status decision<\/li>\n<li>They must be given a written Engagement Agreement if the result of their check is \u2018treated as employed for tax purposes\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also a <strong>NEW, TIME DRIVEN APPEALS PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Compliance Team will provide you with all necessary documents and guidance. Help us to help you, by ensuring that\u00a0tax status assessments are completed accurately and\u00a0<strong>BEFORE any work starts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please see the following communication for more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/r\/sites\/EmploymentStatusPortal\/_layouts\/15\/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B78AB66CC-DECF-4814-895D-8CD5681CB7CF%7D&amp;file=April%202021%20-%20Employment%20Status%20for%20Tax%20%20Off-Payroll%20Working%20updated%20comms%20.docx&amp;action=default&amp;mobileredirect=true\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2021 &#8211; Employment Status for Tax Off-Payroll Working updated comms .docx (sharepoint.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/login.microsoftonline.com\/8da13783-cb68-443f-bb4b-997f77fd5bfb\/oauth2\/authorize?client%5Fid=00000003%2D0000%2D0ff1%2Dce00%2D000000000000&amp;response%5Fmode=form%5Fpost&amp;response%5Ftype=code%20id%5Ftoken&amp;resource=00000003%2D0000%2D0ff1%2Dce00%2D000000000000&amp;scope=openid&amp;nonce=53EC34F8EF2B32C6BC5A18A21F0CF3008A732C9984140AE6%2DACD6CAC63A925C869F98D2D26140DBF7854CB4C6ED2A69CA8DE249C9EBB0E4F9&amp;redirect%5Furi=https%3A%2F%2Fdevoncc%2Esharepoint%2Ecom%2F%5Fforms%2Fdefault%2Easpx&amp;state=OD0w&amp;claims=%7B%22id%5Ftoken%22%3A%7B%22xms%5Fcc%22%3A%7B%22values%22%3A%5B%22CP1%22%5D%7D%7D%7D&amp;wsucxt=1&amp;cobrandid=11bd8083%2D87e0%2D41b5%2Dbb78%2D0bc43c8a8e8a&amp;client%2Drequest%2Did=4146a4a0%2De061%2D6000%2D63c4%2D94b472170ad4\" rel=\"noopener\">Employment Status Portal &#8211; Home (sharepoint.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or email: <a href=\"mailto:employment.status@devon.gov.uk\">employment.status@devon.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 6th April 2021 Employment Status checks MUST be completed, and the contractor advised of their tax status,\u00a0BEFORE the work begins. &nbsp; The following must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-status"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 05:21:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20319,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/20319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}