Keep the record, not just the answer
Under s.61NA ITEPA 2003 a statement made without reasonable care is not a status determination statement at all — so the consequences follow as if you had never issued one. What answers that years later is the file behind it.
- Both accounts of the working arrangements
Your hiring manager answers; the worker answers the same questions through a link. Where the two differ, that difference is the finding — and you record which account you rely on and why.
- A determination with reasons, affirmed by a named person
The tool proposes; you determine. Nothing is issued until someone at your organisation affirms it, and it will not let you affirm on facts you have not gathered.
- Deadlines that actually cost money
The statement must reach the worker and the party you contract with before any payment (ESM10013), and a challenge must be answered within 45 days (s.61T). Both are tracked from the dates you enter.
Decision-support, not regulated financial, tax or legal advice. The determination and the reasonable care behind it remain yours — no tool's output can move a statutory duty from the person who owes it. There is no human review step: what you get is a recommendation you decide on.
Create your account
Two questions about your organisation first — they decide whether the rules reach you at all.
Not sure yet? The free checks need no account and store nothing.