Extract from the report;
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HMRC should continue to work with representative bodies to disseminate messages about some umbrella companies’ non-compliant activity among employment agencies. This research highlights that some umbrella companies could be driving non-compliant activity in the recruitment industry; it also suggests that some smaller agencies are unable to identify this due to a lack of knowledge and/or resource.
Therefore, working with bodies such as the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) a
bout how to help these agencies to identify red flag behaviour among umbrella companies could help to empower them to make better decisions about who they engage with.
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