Policy paper

Employment status review

The OTS published its report on Employment Status and tax in March 2015 and a summary of responses in July 2015.

Documents

Employment status report - summary of responses

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email ots@ots.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Employment status report

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email ots@ots.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Minutes: employment status consultative committee 27 Jan 2015 (PDF)

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email ots@ots.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

The OTS has completed its project on Employment Status and has published a full report. The report contains a number of recommendations: some aim to improve the workings of the current definition of employment status in the tax system; others aim to make changes to the wider tax system and so make the employment status less of an issue. Almost all of our recommendations are long term in nature and will require a good deal of further work so we would welcome comments to ots-employmentstatus@ots.gsi.gov.uk.

We are very grateful to all the organisations, representative bodies, businesses and individuals who met with us or wrote to us with input for our project, including the 340 people who completed our online survey.

In July 2015 we published a short summary of the responses we received to the report.

Read the exchange of letters between the OTS and David Gauke MP.

Image by Philip Taylor on Flickr. Used under creative commons.

Published 25 July 2014
Last updated 16 July 2015 + show all updates
  1. Page updated to include publication of summary of responses.

  2. Updated to include full report document

  3. Minutes uploaded for 27 Jan 2015 meeting

  4. Survey link added

  5. list of questions added for comment by 31 December 2014

  6. Contact details and further information added

  7. First published.