Guidance

HMRC email updates, videos and webinars for off-payroll working

Learn more about off-payroll working rules (IR35) with email updates and recorded webinars.

Subscribe to receive email updates

Subscribe to the HMRC help and support email service to get information on a wide range of topics for individuals, businesses, employers and agents.

You can also:

  • make changes to your topic subscriptions
  • unsubscribe from the service whenever you want

Webinars

HMRC ran a range of off-payroll webinars covering overviews of the reforms, and more specific topic areas.

Recordings are available giving a general overview of the rules, and more detail on specific topic areas, including:

  • an overview of the off-payroll working rules for organisations
  • an overview of the off-payroll working rules for contractors
  • fee-payer responsibilities
  • the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool
  • contracted out services
  • making the determination, disagreements and record keeping
  • international matters
  • types of engagements

Off-payroll working rules for organisations

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 for organisations for:

  • public sector
  • medium and large sized organisations

Off-payroll working rules for contractors

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 for contractors to help contractors understand what these changes mean for them.

Off-payroll working rules and fee-payer responsibilities

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and fee-payer responsibilities to learn about fee-payers’ responsibilities under the off-payroll working rules such as:

  • who fee-payers are and their responsibilities
  • qualifying persons
  • deemed employers
  • how to work out the deemed direct payment

Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about the CEST tool.

This webinar is designed to help you understand how HMRC’s CEST tool can help you make robust and accurate status determinations. During this session we will walk you through a status determination using a mock engagement.

Off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and contracted out services and statements of work

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and contracted out services and statements of work to learn about:

  • what HMRC consider forms a fully contracted out service
  • the effect of statements of work in the context of the off-payroll working rules

Off-payroll working rules and status determinations and disagreements

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and status determinations and disagreements to learn about:

  • what status determination statements are within the off-payroll working rules
  • how to deal with disagreements following the status determination

Off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and international matters

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and international matters to learn about how off-payroll working rules interact with international and overseas issues.

This webinar will be most relevant for customers in gas and oil, media, transport and the utilities sectors.

Off-payroll working rules and engagement

Recorded webinar

Watch a recorded webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and engagement to learn about:

  • different types of engagements
  • when the off-payroll working rules apply and whose responsibility it is to consider them

Videos

Off-payroll working rules for businesses

Watch a video about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and how it may affect businesses that engage with contractors.

Watch a video on YouTube about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 and how it may affect businesses that engage with contractors.

Additional resources for organisations and contractors

Factsheets, flow charts and case studies are available for contractors and organisations on the April 2021 changes to the rules. These can be found on the communication resources page.

Communication resources for off-payroll working rules are available and can be used to communicate with your members, clients and customers about changes to the off-payroll working rules. These will be of most use in communicating changes to the off-payroll working rules to workers.

HMRC community forums

You can use the online HMRC community forums to ask questions, see what others are asking and get answers.

Published 24 February 2020
Last updated 25 January 2024 + show all updates
  1. Links to all recorded webinars have been updated.

  2. Where no webinars are currently scheduled we have made it clear that links are to recordings of previous sessions.

  3. The links to the recorded webinars have been updated.

  4. Information about the HMRC help and support email service and a new ‘HMRC community forums’ section has been added.

  5. The links to watch recorded webinars have been updated.

  6. We have added webinar recording links for the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool.

  7. A webinar recording about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 – contracted out services and statements of work has been added.

  8. A new webinar about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 — contracted out services and statements of work has been added.

  9. A new webinar to help you understand the Checking Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool has been added.

  10. A new webinar to help you understand the Checking Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool has been added.

  11. A link to a video about how changes to the off-payroll working rules (IR35) may affect businesses from April 2021 has been added.

  12. The webinar for off-payroll working rules from April 2021 – fee-payer responsibilities if you're a client or fee-payer has been updated.

  13. The closed webinar 'off-payroll working rules from April 2021 – organisations' has been removed.

  14. All links to recorded webinars have been updated.

  15. Catch up webinars for off-payroll working rules from April 2021: Status Determinations and Disagreements, off-payroll working rules from April 2021: fee-payer responsibilities, off-payroll working rules from April 2021: contractors have been updated.

  16. Updated links for catch up webinars about off-payroll working rules from April 2021: international matters.

  17. Updated links for catch up webinars about 'off-payroll working rules from April 2021: engagement' for clients, fee-payers, contractors and tax agents.

  18. Dates changed to reflect that important changes to payroll working came into effect on 6 April 2021

  19. New catch up webinars about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 separately for organisations, international matters, engagement and contractors have been added.

  20. The webinars for 'Off-payroll working rules from April 2021: Status Determinations and Disagreements' and 'Off-payroll working rules from April 2021: fee-payer responsibilities' have been updated.

  21. The webinars for if you're client or fee-payer, contractor or tax agent have been updated.

  22. New links added for webinars about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 for contractors and international matters.

  23. New links added for webinars about off-payroll working rules from April 2021 for contractors and international matters.

  24. A link has been added for a recorded webinar 'Register for the off-payroll working rules 2021 - international matters', in the 'if you're a contractor section.

  25. A link has been added for a recorded webinar about the changes to off-payroll working rules from 6 April 2021.

  26. This guidance has been update to show the changes to off-payroll working rules for organisations from 6 April 2021.

  27. First published.