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How the gig economy finally went into retreat

  • Written by Gerhard Schnyder, Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University
How the gig economy finally went into retreatCrash helmets at the ready. Rowan Freeman/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

A loophole that many self-employed people have used to avoid paying income tax and national insurance in the UK has closed. After a yearlong delay, the IR35 regulation came into force on April 6. It gives larger companies the responsibility for deciding contractors’ employment...