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Cloud-driven, industry standard IR35 compliance solution for business and individual contractors. Quickly and accurately prove you are IR35 compliant.


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4.0

Great

TrustScore 4 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Customer Service Alongside An Easy To Use Platform

IR35 Shield have done well at finding and retaining the right employees, making the customer experience an easy and positive one. We've worked with Louella and Stuart and both have been flexible, knowledgeable and incredibly helpful with anything from account set up and renewals, to assisting with requested changes and random queries.
The platform is user friendly, works as expected and we can't fault the customer service.

10 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dodgy!

Tried to do this assesment and when you try to use the "Previous" buttons to go back and double check or amend an answer this is not possible!

Furthermore, the questions are ambiguous and I think designed to direct you towards an "Outside IR35" position.

No way to contact these people with any ease either.

16 September 2022
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Reply from IR35 Shield

Thank you for submitting this review Henry, and I'm very sorry to read about your experience.

To clarify: We pride ourselves on our independence, and gain nothing by directing contractors toward an IR35 status. We have no vested interests - our assessments serve contractors, agencies and clients, and we need to ensure all are treated with equal diligence.

The "previous" button does work but, due to technical limitations, you have to complete the answers on your current page first. We are working on a solution for this.

It's a shame you declined to provide your contact details to TrustPilot - I'd love to chat to you about your concerns, so please feel free to email me on mark.thorby@ir35shield.co.uk to arrange a call.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Invaluable

I'm so glad we have this service to rely on - it stopped our company signing a contract that would have got us into massive trouble on taxes. Yes, it costs some money - why should anyone give out their expertise for free? Going forward we will check every contract with this tool, it's worth its weight in gold.

20 November 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay Away

you spend 20 minutes to check the IR35 status, you should pay to see the result in the end. ridiculous. use other websites for free service

25 February 2020
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Reply from IR35 Shield

Thank you for your feedback, Jay. We try to make it very clear on our website that our assessments will need to be paid for, but will check our material to make sure that we haven't missed anything.

Mark @ IR35 Shield

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