Choose a plan that's right for you

Simple, straightforward plans, IR35 Shield has the solution to help you stay compliant.

Basic

The ideal starter plan for businesses wanting to manage their IR35 compliance.

from Free

 

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Basic plan includes:

  • Assess your contractors' IR35 status*
  • Store and manage their data
  • Share Status Determination Statements
  • 1 team member

*Contractors pay for their assessments

Assess

For businesses wanting to deliver fast,
fair and robust assessments.

from 100

Billed annually

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Includes Basic, plus:

  • Your branding
  • Collaborative/Role-based Assessments
  • Status explorer
  • Reports & Calculators
  • Dedicated account & support managers
  • Dispute management
  • Up to 5 team members
  • Optional Tax Investigation Service bolt-on

Monitor

For businesses wanting the security of the
full IR35 compliance process.

from 225

Billed annually

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Includes Assess, plus:

  • Regular status checking
  • Automatic evidence gathering
  • Realtime status alerts
  • Determinations supported by evidence
  • Comprehensive Monitoring Report
  • Secure cloud storage for Monitoring data
  • Up to 10 team members
  • Optional Tax Investigation Service bolt-on

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Feature Basic Assess Monitor
Dashboard
Status Determination Statements
Status explorer
Branding
Role-based assessments
Collaborative Assessments
Dispute management
Reporting, Strategy & Modelling
Calculators
Regular status checking
Automatic evidence gathering
Real-time status alerts
Determinations supported by evidence
Comprehensive Monitoring Report
Included with the Tax Investigation Service:
A full defence team with extensive IR35 tribunal experience
Handling of all communications with HMRC
Up to £200,000 of defence costs cover

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La Fosse Associates

"IR35 Shield has enabled us to offer an added value service that we otherwise would not have been able to provide to our clients."

Katherine Miller

Head of legal and audit

Markel

"We are delighted to be working with IR35 Shield to help firms manage the risks associated with the new off-payroll reforms."

Paul Mason

Head of Tax Partnerships

Boss Professional Services

"A win all round."

Saeed

BOSS Professional Services

Brownlee Dean

"IR35 Shield is both efficient and user-friendly, and it demonstrates reasonable care, providing us and our clients with the necessary assurance."

Pete Walker

Managing Director

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"I love the system. It's so easy to use."

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Re:find

Footasylum

"Having adopted IR35 Shield as our compliance solution, it’s essentially been business as usual for us. The administration involved is minor."

David Nottage

Talent Attraction & Acquisition Manager

Clemtech

"IR35 Shield helps minimise the pain of off-payroll compliance for our clients, while effectively mitigating the risk for all parties in the supply chain."

Kelly Futcher

Head of finance

Multiplex

"IR35 Shield is incredibly thorough compared to other tools."

Amelia

Multiplex

Anderson Anderson & Brown

"IR35 Shield has enabled us to carry out accurate status assessments in bulk this has proven invaluable for our service offering."

Steven Fraser

Partner, global payroll & employment taxes

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In case you're wondering Here's some FAQs, or you can talk to us for more info.

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IR35 is tax avoidance legislation targeting ‘deemed employees’ - workers supplying their services to clients via an intermediary (such as a limited company) who would be classed as employees under employment law if not for the intermediary, and so should be taxed like employees.
As a result of the changes to the private sector in April 2021, every organisation which engages contractors in both the public and private sector is 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.
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.
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 credits, 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.
IR35 Shield has a setting to allow you to decide how much your contractor will see after completion of their assessment. This will be decided and implemented on setup, and can be changed at any time.
CEST only uses a basic checklist to determine status, rather than IR35 Shield’s highly complex weight-based algorithmic solution. IR35 Shield asks 101 questions, CEST asks 16. IR35 Shield has correctly predicted the status determinations of all previous IR35 tribunals; CEST was incorrect in over 30% of those tribunals. IR35 Shield gives a definitive determination on 98% of cases, CEST gives 25% of cases an “indeterminate” result.
Built by industry-leading experts, using complicated algorithms and utilising Amazon’s latest auto-scaling, serverless technology, IR35 Shield 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.

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