We’re on your side, helping your business to stay outside IR35
Today, more than ever, you must be proactive and take responsibility for supporting clients to engage with your business outside IR35.
Our exclusive resources, assessment tools and accountancy service are all designed to help you get outside – and stay outside – IR35.
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Chart your own path with our
expert-authored IR35 Action Planner
Our IR35 Action Planner not only provides an authoritative, yet accessible, explanation of IR35, but also helps you establish a long term IR35 strategy for your business.
Our IR35 Action Planner is packed with exclusive videos, articles, podcasts, checklists and resources to help you successfully navigate the single biggest change impacting service businesses in a decade.
As well as helping you develop your strategy, you’ll also find practical day-to-day tips and a series of tactical plans to help you overcome common problems when engaging with end clients.
Audit your working practices and challenge a status determination with confidence.
If your end client is determining your IR35 status, it’s more important than ever to review, optimise and audit your working practices. Our tools facilitate productive conversations with clients, supporting them to engage with your business with confidence.
Look through your client’s eyes with our unique working practice assessment tool
Your starting point is our exclusive and innovative working practice assessment tool.
It’s designed to allow you to look through your client’s (and HMRC’s) eyes and evaluate your contract and working practices. As you work through the comprehensive, lawyer-approved questions, you’ll build up a real-time view of your strengths and risk areas.
Unlike other status tools, it isn’t designed to give you a simple ‘pass/fail’ verdict. It’s designed to increase your knowledge and understanding, and to allow you to improve your working practices.
Understand HMRC’s opinion by comparing CEST determinations to employment law
HMRC’s employment status tool, CEST, is not without controversy, but it can be difficult to articulate exactly where its weaknesses are.
If your end client is using CEST, it is essential that you are able to engage in an informed discussion about the potential pitfalls of your CEST assessment.
Our working practice assessment tool solves this by providing you with two simultaneous views: one showing a wide range of factors from case law, whilst the second shows the bias of CEST factors.
This allows you to instantly identify the gaps between your CEST determination and employment status case law, giving you the confidence to open up discussions with your clients.
Gather evidence and use our lawyer-approved emails to challenge determinations
If you need to challenge your IR35 status with your client, it’s essential that you are prepared and confident as you enter this process.
Our working practice assessment tool allows you to enter supporting evidence, so you can demonstrate and justify the reason for your dispute to your client. What’s more, you can print or create a professional PDF of your assessment to serve as a comprehensive starting point for your challenge.
We even have a series of email templates written by an employment lawyer, allowing you to start the status challenge process with professional confidence.
Improve your working practices and ensure the continued compliance of your business
If your current assignment is deemed outside IR35, it’s essential that you continue to implement best practices, and don’t fall into bad habits. Many end clients are undertaking both regular and spot audits to ensure suppliers remain compliant.
That’s why you can set reminders in the app to complete regular reviews of your working practices, meaning you’re prepared, should your engagement be audited.
Our service includes unlimited working practice assessments, meaning you can regularly review your business operations. This way, you can ensure you’re in the best possible position to engage with future clients outside IR35.
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Find out more about our IR35 Action Planner and how inniAccounts can help you get the status that’s right for your business. Chat to Jess for a free 24 hour access code.
inniAccounts is built from the ground up to support best working practices
When it comes to IR35, being “in business on your own account” is a key test in determining your status. That’s why our service is built around the needs of small service businesses, making it easy to implement best practices every day. Our innovative software is packed with features that not only cut down on day to day admin, but also make it easier to demonstrate that you’re a business owner, running a true business. We’ve also got a host of features to support you should you decide to expand your business. If you’re serious about being in business on your own account yet your accountant still makes you use a spreadsheet or a clunky portal, then isn’t it time you upgraded your accountant?
Our comprehensive accountancy service allows you to:
- Work with multiple concurrent clients
- Sub-contract work, or provide a substitute worker
- Engage clients via an agent, or directly
- Receive passive income (apps, training, digital assets)
- Track and bill time for multiple fee earners
- Pay dividends to multiple shareholders
- Pay multiple employees, with support for auto-enrolment pensions
- Retain full control over payroll and dividends
- Apply your brand to quotes and invoices
- Automatic sequential invoice numbering
- Invoice overseas clients in foreign currencies
- Accept credit and debit card payments
- Track and plan finances and tax in real-time
- Retain profit for the future
- Track and depreciate company assets (e.g. IT/office equipment)
- Manage business overheads (phones, broadband, insurances, etc)
Learn more about our accountancy support. Check out our comprehensive, fixed fee plans and find the one that’s right for you.
Being in business on your own account is straightforward with inniAccounts.
Compare our plansWe’re on your side. That’s why we’re campaigning for fairer IR35
We understand the huge contribution that consultants and contractors bring to our economy, which is why we’re standing up against clients who deliver unfair IR35 determinations and those who force true business owners to use umbrella services.
We feature regularly as an expert voice in national newspapers, podcasts and webinars, driving home the value this sector brings and the importance of getting IR35 right.
We, together with our freelance PR consultant, won The Drum PR Grand Prix award for campaigning and contribution to public affairs.
In 2020 we researched and collated evidence of the challenges implementing IR35, which was accepted by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Finance Bill Sub–Committee.