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Falling foul of the Act can lead to substantial costs in back taxes, fines and penalties and liability can now be traced to not only to your limited company, but also your agency or hirer. On top of this, falling within IR35 tax status means you could suffer a 20% decrease in net take-home pay.

These are the main factors affecting employment status, as per case law, and are based around the relationship between the contractor and the end hirer. IR35 Shield divides these into four - substitution, mutuality of obligation, control and other factors - and asks many detailed questions to accurately determine your employment status.

Our complex algorithms were built by industry-leading experts who have consulted with the Treasury on IR35. They are regularly refined in line with the latest IR35 tribunal case outcomes and regression tested for robustness against our extensive database of previously conducted assessments. So you get up-to-date employment legislation applied across every evaluation, without bias. Every time.

Yes. Simply contact us with a request for deletion of your account and data, and we will happily oblige. Please bear in mind that you will lose your data permanently.

A human expert would typically take 2-3 hours to deliver an assessment, charge hundreds of pounds, and could take days. Our solution will provide an accurate Status Determination Statement in 15 minutes, at any time of the day, for any number of concurrent assessments, and is not subject to human error or bias.

No. Our membership provides tax investigation insurance for assessments completed either before or during the contract but it does not cover contracts completed before the assessment. We advise that you take membership for any new contracts, then take more assessments for your historic contracts and keep a copy of the assessments alongside your contracts. For extra peace of mind, try to get your previous clients to sign off historic assessments using the sign off sheet at the back of the Status Determination Statement.

Built by industry-leading experts, using complicated algorithms and utilising Amazon’s latest auto-scaling, serverless technology, our virtual lawyer can assess thousands of contractors in a single day, evaluate them on a 19 point scale between outside and inside IR35, and generate a comprehensive Status Determination Statement for each individual. Our virtual IR35 lawyer puts the pieces together, stands back and evaluates the whole.

Artificial Intelligence – or AI – is the term applied when a machine mimics the cognitive functions typically attributed to a human in order to carry out a certain task. Already widely adopted in sectors such as medicine and finance, AI continues to permeate our daily lives in a variety of ways and is being credited for reimagining entire industries.

Changes announced starting in April 2020 to the private sector mean every organisation, both public and private sector, engaging contractors will be affected by IR35.

• Hirers determine the IR35 status of contractors
• Agencies are responsible for calculating and deducting tax from contractors’ pay
• Agencies risk liability for unpaid tax and penalties if an IR35 evaluation is incorrect
• Accountants risk losing their contractor clients, as contractors are forced into payroll solutions

These are the main factors affecting employment status, as per case law, and are based around the relationship between the contractor and the end hirer. IR35 Shield divides these into four - substitution, mutuality of obligation, control and other factors - and asks many detailed questions to accurately determine your employment status.

A human expert would typically take 2-3 hours to deliver an assessment, charge hundreds of pounds, and could take days. Our solution will provide an accurate Status Determination Statement in 15 minutes, at any time of the day, for any number of concurrent assessments, and is not subject to human error or bias.

No! Our virtual IR35 lawyer can handle as many assessments as you can throw at him. We harness a mind-boggling new technology provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services) which allows us to automatically scale up our architecture to handle thousands of simultaneous assessments and Status Determination Statements, whenever the need arises.

Don’t worry - if you run out of credit, you will still be able to invite contractors to take the assessment, and they will still be able to complete it. However, if you wish to unlock the finished assessment (ie. view and download the Status Determination Statement) you will need to top up your credits to do so.

There are no other systems like IR35 Shield currently available. To avoid a case of “unknown unknowns”, we show you a demo of IR35 Shield and explain each screen and function. After you’ve seen this demo, we will happily provide you with a populated trial version so you can use the system armed with prior knowledge of how best to use it.

Although our development team has extensive experience in employment and taxation law, IR35 Shield is a software product, built by software experts. Offering legal advice, charging hours for consultancy, or working on sales forces us to spend less time on our core business - software development. This is why we created a white-label product for experts in accountancy, employment and law to use, harnessing the power of our software alongside the expertise provided by our Certified Partner. Best of all, this allows us to continue doing what we do best - building great software.

Built by industry-leading experts, using complicated algorithms and utilising Amazon’s latest auto-scaling, serverless technology, our virtual lawyer can assess thousands of contractors in a single day, evaluate them on a 19 point scale between outside and inside IR35, and generate a comprehensive Status Determination Statement for each individual. It puts the pieces together, stands back and evaluates the whole.

Artificial Intelligence – or AI – is the term applied when a machine mimics the cognitive functions typically attributed to a human in order to carry out a certain task. Already widely adopted in sectors such as medicine and finance, AI continues to permeate our daily lives in a variety of ways and is being credited for reimagining entire industries.